RT Journal Article
T1 New Directions for Preventing Dating Violence in Adolescence: The Study of Gender Models
A1 Santoro, Chiara
A1 Martinez-Ferrer, Belen
A1 Monreal-Gimeno, M Carmen
A1 Musitu Ochoa, Gonzalo
K1 Dating violence
K1 Adolescence
K1 Gender models
K1 Gender policies
K1 Prevention
AB Dating violence is a huge transcultural and alarming phenomenon, directly linkedwith endless discrimination against women. The latest research on dating violence inadolescence shows how dating violence is persistent and common in the adolescentperiod as well and pinpoints the origin of gender violence from first adolescentrelationships. This element takes us to considerate how recent gender violence studiesand policies, increased also thanks to international efforts on this issue, are notbringing expected results, especially among young people. This mini-review aims toanalyze the main characteristics of current gender studies and policies on datingviolence, focusing on percentages with a woman-centered approach, which stressesthe consequences of gender violence. Other gender studies, that consider gender asa relational product, stress the importance of integrating the analysis of gender modelsas a key instrument to understand the main causes of dating violence, providing newelements to develop effective policies against dating violence. Indeed, gender modelsof femininity and masculinity are based on a binary system, which is also a reciprocalrecognition and identity system: gender models define female and male characteristics,roles, stereotypes, and expectation, being complementary and foreclosing at the sametime. Recent studies on gender relationships, especially among the youth, allows usto propose a new dialog between dating violence studies and gender model studies,underling the need of a complete and complex understanding of gender structure, andof its tensions and contradictions, to put an end to gender and dating violence, througheffective programs.
PB Fontiers Media
YR 2018
FD 2018-06-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/5644
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/5644
LA en
NO Frontiers in Psychology, vol 9, article 946
NO Departamento de Educación y Psicología Social
DS RIO
RD May 10, 2026