Parental functions and Peer Influence on College Students’ Perception of Dating Violence
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Keng, Jui-Chi
Abstract
This paper focuses on violent dating experiences college students have, and examines whether two factors, family function and peer influence, will significantly predict perceptions of dating violence.
This study employed a quantitative research method and the data were collected by questionnaire survey. The researcher selected a stratified random sample of college students who had dating relationships from 23 universities. The measurements included family functioning scale, informal support scale, and dating violence scale. Analysis was conducted by SPSS for 16.0. Data analysis adopted multinomial logistic regression to examine the relationships between independent and dependent variables.
There were 666 effective questionnaires received. The prevalence of dating violence was about 60.5%. The proportion of dating violence victimistion was 51.8%, and the proportion of dating violence perpetration was 44.3%. For different types of dating violence, the most common type was controlling behavior, followed by physical violence, and the last was sexual violence. For the perception of dating violence, this study found gender, grade, and peer influence could significantly predict perception of dating violence. Male college students had a greater degree of awareness of dating violence and controlling behavior than female college students did. Students with better grades also had a greater degree of awareness of dating violence, controlling behavior, and physical abuse. When peers of college students are more supportive of dating violence, the students will have a lower degree of awareness of dating violence victimistion. However, peers’ support for dating violence could not predict awareness of dating violence perpetration.
The research results suggest that we should educate teenagers about dating violence, focusing on the awareness of controlling behavior, and reinforcing the awareness of dating violence for females. On the one hand, the prevalence of controlling behavior is the highest, but college students have the lowest degree of awareness concerning this. On the other hand, females have a lower degree of awareness of dating violence than males. Therefore, we need to concentrate on those issues. We also have to promote the opposition towards dating violence and reduce support for dating violence. Last but not the least, we could collaborate with different systems to provide supporting service and legitimate to provide help for suitable assistance.
Subjects
dating violence
intimate partner violence
self-perception
family function
peer influence
Type
thesis
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