Vanesa Pérez-Martínez1, Belén Sanz-Barbero2, Rosario Ferrer-Cascales3, Nicola Bowes4, Alba Ayala5, Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo3, Natalia Albaladejo-Blázquez3, Nicoletta Rosati6, Sofia Neves7, Cristina Pereira Vieira7, Barbara Jankowiak8, Katarzyna Waszyńska8, Carmen Vives-Cases9. 1. Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public health and History of Science Department, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain. 2. CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; National School of Public Health, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: bsanz@isciii.es. 3. Health Psychology Department, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain. 4. Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 5. CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. 6. Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA-Libera Universita Maria SS Assunta Di Roma, Rome, Italy. 7. Instituto Universitário da Maia, Maia, Portugal. 8. Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. 9. Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public health and History of Science Department, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain; CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To analyze the potential association between social support, experiences of violence, and sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents and the likelihood of acceptance of violence and machismo in different European countries. METHODS: Cross-sectional design. We recruited 1,555 participants ages 13-16 from secondary schools in Alicante (Spain), Rome (Italy), Iasi (Romania), Matosinhos (Portugal), Poznan (Poland), and Cardiff (UK). We used linear regression models to identify how social support from teachers and parents, experiences of violence-dating violence, bullying, cyberbullying, abuse in childhood-and sociodemographic characteristics were associated with violent thinking, specifically: machismo and acceptance of violence. The analysis was stratified by sex. RESULTS: Acceptance of violence was higher for those who had lower perceived social support from parents (βgirls = -154, p < .001; βboys = -.114, p = .019) for both sexes. Perpetration of bullying and/or cyberbullying was associated with higher scores for machismo and acceptance of violence for both sexes (βgirls = .067, p = .035; βboys = .225, p < .001; (βgirls = .118, p < .001; βboys = .210, p < .001). Being the victim of dating violence, having suffered physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood, and lower perceived social support from teachers were associated with higher scores for both machismo and acceptance of violence. These associations differed between girls and boys. CONCLUSIONS: Machismo and acceptance of violence are widely present amongst adolescents in different European countries. Our results suggest the importance of providing educational/psycho-educational interventions with boys and girls to prevent these attitudes and, in turn, prevent interpersonal violence, including bullying and dating violence.
PURPOSE: To analyze the potential association between social support, experiences of violence, and sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents and the likelihood of acceptance of violence and machismo in different European countries. METHODS: Cross-sectional design. We recruited 1,555 participants ages 13-16 from secondary schools in Alicante (Spain), Rome (Italy), Iasi (Romania), Matosinhos (Portugal), Poznan (Poland), and Cardiff (UK). We used linear regression models to identify how social support from teachers and parents, experiences of violence-dating violence, bullying, cyberbullying, abuse in childhood-and sociodemographic characteristics were associated with violent thinking, specifically: machismo and acceptance of violence. The analysis was stratified by sex. RESULTS: Acceptance of violence was higher for those who had lower perceived social support from parents (βgirls = -154, p < .001; βboys = -.114, p = .019) for both sexes. Perpetration of bullying and/or cyberbullying was associated with higher scores for machismo and acceptance of violence for both sexes (βgirls = .067, p = .035; βboys = .225, p < .001; (βgirls = .118, p < .001; βboys = .210, p < .001). Being the victim of dating violence, having suffered physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood, and lower perceived social support from teachers were associated with higher scores for both machismo and acceptance of violence. These associations differed between girls and boys. CONCLUSIONS: Machismo and acceptance of violence are widely present amongst adolescents in different European countries. Our results suggest the importance of providing educational/psycho-educational interventions with boys and girls to prevent these attitudes and, in turn, prevent interpersonal violence, including bullying and dating violence.
Authors: Carmen Vives-Cases; Belén Sanz-Barbero; Alba Ayala; Vanesa Pérez-Martínez; Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo; Sylwia Jaskulska; Ana Sofia Antunes das Neves; Maria João Forjaz; Jacek Pyżalski; Nic Bowes; Dália Costa; Katarzyna Waszyńska; Barbara Jankowiak; Veronica Mocanu; María Carmen Davó-Blanes Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2021-02-03 Impact factor: 3.390
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