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Impact of dating violence on mental health

Table 10. Correlations between women’s dating violence perpetration and study variables disaggregated by partner type
Total violence perpetration Psychological violence Physical violence Sexual violence
Same-sex partner
Somatic symptoms 0.13 0.06 0.21* 0.08
Anxiety and insomnia symptoms 0.14 0.11 0.20* −0.06
Social dysfunction 0.11 0.07 0.11 0.13
Severe depression symptoms 0.12 0.06 0.26** −0.07
Life satisfaction −0.04 −0.05 −0.07 0.11
Self-esteem −0.17* −0.14 −0.17* 0.00
Traditional gender role attitudes 0.25** 0.26** 0.13 −0.09
Masculine/instrumental trait −0.16 −0.17 −0.05 −0.01
Feminine/expressive trait −0.19* −0.23** 0.03 0.09
Age −0.07 −0.04 −0.10 −0.05
Education level a −0.02 −0.01 0.06 −0.01
Opposite-sex partner
Somatic symptoms 0.16 0.12 0.14 0.09
Anxiety and insomnia symptoms 0.16 0.14 0.11 0.05
Social dysfunction 0.24** 0.26** 0.04 −0.01
Severe depression symptoms 0.07 0.08 −0.03 −0.01
Life satisfaction −0.16 −0.13 −0.16 0.04
Self-esteem −0.02 −0.03 −0.01 0.08
Traditional gender role attitudes 0.17* 0.19* 0.01 −0.02
Masculine/instrumental trait −0.04 −0.05 0.01 −0.04
Feminine/expressive trait −0.04 −0.04 −0.04 0.12
Age 0.26** 0.21* 0.27** −0.01
Education level a 0.09 0.01 0.09 −0.07
Notes: Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Statistically significant coefficients are shown in bold. *p<0.05; **p<0.01.
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violence experienced greater social dysfunction and older physical, and total violence also reported more somatic
aged women reported greater perpetration of physical, symptoms. Those with more traditional attitudes toward
psychological, and total violence. gender roles were more likely to perpetrate all types of
violence, while men who internalized more feminine/
Table 11 displays the correlation coefficients between
men’s perpetration of dating violence and the study variables, expressive traits reported less psychological, physical, and
sexual violence toward their dating partners.
disaggregated by partner type. Statistically significant
correlation coefficients differ between men with same-sex 4. Discussion
partners and men with opposite-sex partners. Among men
with same-sex partners, only three statistically significant This study is based on a sample of individuals from the
correlation coefficients were observed. Specifically, men Spanish general population who have or had a dating
with same-sex partners who reported greater perpetration partner, half of whom were in same-sex relationships
of psychological and total dating violence experienced and half in opposite-sex relationships, though none were
more anxiety and insomnia symptoms; additionally, older married or cohabiting with their partner. The results show
that dating violence is common, but significant differences
men reported greater perpetration of sexual violence.
exist in terms of the type of violence, partner type, and
Men with opposite-sex partners who reported greater gender. The prevalence of being a victim to any form of
perpetration of physical, psychological, and sexual dating dating violence was 60.8% for men with same-sex partners,
violence reported more severe depression symptoms, lower 59% for women with same-sex partners, 67.5% for men
self-esteem, and decreased life satisfaction. Furthermore, with opposite-sex partners, and 48.6% for women with
men who reported greater perpetration of psychological, opposite-sex partners. These findings align with previous

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