Violence in heterosexual dating among students of the Higher School of Nursing No. 1 of the Autonomous University of Guerrero.

Abstract

Dating violence among university students is a widespread phenomenon. Studied from the perspective of Gender Psychology, the prevalence-frequency of the phenomenon was revealed, as well as the mutuality of violent behaviors and the differences based on sex among undergraduate nursing students at UAGro. The findings of the mean difference test indicate that the perpetration of violence between men and women is similar, and in courtships with assaults, 84.0% of women and 80.0% of men assumed the double role of perpetrator and victim of psychological violence. The qualitative methodology reveals that violence is encouraged by limitations in self-control, love and jealousy, and that individual, family, relational and sociocultural factors influence it.