Intimate partner violence among university students: gender differences in perpetration and victimization
2020
Abstract
The article focuses on gender differences in perpetration and victimization in the area of intimate partner violence among university students through gender symmetry and reciprocity in violence analysis. Dataset comes from a pilot study supported by the Czech Science Foundation.
The analysed sample included 312 students from 6 Czech universities. The results show that in comparison to Czech population the sample is specific in its higher prevalence of less sever violence and gender symmetry.
Higher victimization was revealed within male population. The symmetry was also found at perpetration.
The reciprocity was higher in cases of psychological violence compared to physical violence.