Jealousy, sexism, and romantic love myths: the role of beliefs in online dating violence.

ABSTRACT: With the massification of the Internet and social networks, a new form of dating violence called cyber-violence has emerged, which involves behaviors of control, humiliation, intimidation and threats towards the partner or ex-partner. Using a non-probabilistic sample of 1,001 participants aged 18 to 25 years, the present study used an ex post facto, retrospective, cross-sectional, single-group design to analyze the joint effects that beliefs associated with dating violence such as romantic love myths, jealousy, and sexism have on the victimization and perpetration of cyber-violence. The results evidenced that jealousy is involved in both Cyber-victimization and Cyber-harassment perpetrated, while sexist beliefs are only involved in perpetration. In the discussion section, it is post

SUBMITTER: Ramirez-Carrasco D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507330 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature