Perceptions of Risk for Dating Violence Among Rural Adolescent Males: An Interpretive Analysis.

ABSTRACT: About one in eight U.S. high school students in Grades 9 to 12 report experiencing teen dating violence (TDV) in the form of physical, sexual, or psychological dating violence in the past year in person, on school grounds, and online. Compared with their urban counterparts, rural teens face nearly double the rate of physical dating abuse and an elevated risk of experiencing multiple forms of violence. Rural young males are exposed to regional masculinities and gender norms that may simultaneously promote female subordination (a prelude to dating violence) while impeding help-seeking intentions. We used an interpretive and dialectical approach grounded in Relational Dialectics Theory to explore how rural young males perceive and describe their own risk of experiencing and perpetrating datin

SUBMITTER: Emezue CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9619278 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature