Sentences with phrase «previous dating violence»

However, among those girls who had higher rates of previous dating violence victimization, completion of «My Voice, My Choice» was associated with lower rates of psychological victimization — being yelled at or called names, having a boy try to frighten or spread rumors about her — and lower rates of psychological distress.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control in 2012, nine percent of U.S. high school students reported physical dating violence in the previous 12 months.

While compiling previous research for their analysis, the researchers found that studies were much less likely to measure dating violence perpetration behaviors and victimization experiences than knowledge and attitudes.

To measure psychological and physical abuse among dating partners within the past school year, Straus et al.'s (1996) Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2) was used to measure intimate partner violence by «a partner» over the previous school year.

Although the researchers had a measure of intimate partner violence, they didn't have a direct measure of negative interactions in adolescents» dating relationships; however, previous research already clearly establishes that negative interactions are a strong predictor of violence.3 Thus, these results don't necessarily «prove» the chain of events outlined above on their own, but they do provide some solid evidence that something to that effect is happening.

The Teen Choices intervention seeks to reduce risk for dating violence by facilitating progress through the stages of change by using five healthy relationship skills (skills 1 through 5, presented in the previous section); daters are encouraged to use those skills in their dating relationships, and nondaters in their peer relationships, as relationships with peers serve as the foundation for experiences in romantic relationships (Connolly, Furman, & Konarski, 2000; Furman, Simon, Shaffer, & Bouchey, 2002; Lempers & Clark - Lempers, 1993).