RT Journal Article
T1 The role of school social support and school social climate in dating violence victimization prevention among adolescents in Europe
A1 Jankowiak, Barbara
A1 Jaskulska, Sylwia
A1 Sanz-Barbero, Belén
A1 Ayala García, Alba
A1 Pyżalski, Jacek
A1 Bowes, Nicola
A1 Claire, Karen De
A1 Neves, Sofia
A1 Topa, Joana
A1 Rodríguez-Blázquez, Carmen
A1 Davó-Blanes, María Carmen
A1 Rosati, Nicoletta
A1 Cinque, Maria
A1 Mocanu, Veronica
A1 Ioan, Beatrice
A1 Chmura Rutkowska, Iwona
A1 Waszynska, Katarzyna
A1 Vives-Cases, Carmen
AB The aim of the article is to show the role of school social support and school social climate in dating violence victimization prevention among adolescents in Europe. Study participants were students from secondary schools (age 13–16) in Spain, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Poland and UK. The analysis in this text concern student with dating experience (n = 993) (57.2% of girls and 66.5% of boys). School social support was measured by School Social Climate, Factor 1 Scale (CECSCE) and by Student Social Support Scale (CASSS), subscales teachers and classmates. The association between school social support and different types of dating victimization (physical and/or sexual dating violence, control dating violence and fear) was measured by calculating the prevalence ratios and their 95% confidence intervals, estimated by Poisson regression models with robust variance. All the models were adjusted by country and by sociodemographic variables. The results show that the average values of all types of social support are significantly lower in young people who have suffered any type of dating violence or were scared of their partner. The likelihood of suffering physical and/or sexual dating violence decreased when school social support increased [PR (CI 95%): 0.96 (0.92; 0.99)]. In the same way, the likelihood of fear decreased when school social climate increased [PR (CI 95%): 0.98 (0.96; 0.99)].There is an association between school social support and school social climate and experiences of being victim of dating violence among adolescents in Europe. Our results suggest that in the prevention of dating violence building a supportive climate at schools and building/using the support of peers and teachers is important.
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
YR 2020
FD 2020-12-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37797
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37797
LA eng
NO This article belongs to the Special Issue Determinants of Health and Well-Being in at Risk Populations.
NO The project "Lights, Camera and Action against Dating Violence" (Ligts4Violence) was funded by the European Commission Directorate-General Justice and Consumers Rights, Equality and Citizen Violence Against Women Program 2016 for the period 2017-2019 to promote healthy dating relationship assets among secondary school students from different European cities, under grant agreement No. 776905. It was also co-supported by the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health of Spain for its aid to the Gender-based Violence and Youth Research Program.
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