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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

This study aims to characterise the prevalence of violence in intimate relationships among young university students and the internalisation of ambivalent sexism. The method used was a quantitative, descriptive study of Primary Education and Early Childhood Education groups in Andalusia, Spain. The final sample consisted of 848 participants. As a data collection tool, we used the VIREPA questionnaire and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. The results show that the most frequent forms of violence in young couples’ relationships are emotional, followed by physical and sexual violence, and emotional violence, followed by physical and psychological violence, with sexual aggression being slightly lower. Concerning the variable sex, although the averages are very close, women have higher averages in terms of emotional, physical, and psychological abuse; personal devaluation; and sexual abuse, while men have higher averages in terms of social and economic control. In addition, low levels of sexism were found to be ambivalent in the sample, with the results being highly differentiated by gender, with men having higher arithmetic means than women. This led us to design educational strategies that avoid inequalities between men and women and that contribute to the eradication of sexism and, consequently, the perpetration of violence.

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Title
Gender-Based Violence and Sexism among Young Couples
Author
Muñoz-Galiano, Inés María 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; González-Gijón, Gracia 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Martínez-Heredia, Nazaret 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Erika González García 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Pedagogy Department, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain; [email protected] 
 Pedagogy Department, Universidad of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; [email protected] (G.G.-G.); [email protected] (E.G.G.) 
First page
179
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20760760
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3003455794
Copyright
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.