Abstract

PENA CUADROS, Paula Daniela; MAHECHA ANGARITA, Jeimmy Johanna; REDONDO PACHECO, Jesús  and  LUZARDO BRICENO, Marianela. Prevalence gender cyber-violence in engagement at two universities in Bucaramanga and Metropolitan Area. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2023, vol.40, n.1, pp.81-96.  Epub Oct 06, 2023. ISSN 0123-417X.

The information and communication technologies (ICT) have become a tool for interaction and entertainment that is evidenced in different areas of life, by facilitating, at the same time, a technological space to establish and maintain dating relationships in young people through frequent use of social media and favoring elements of control, isolation, domination, submission and imposition. This research identifies the prevalence of gender cyber-violence in engagement in young university students, using a quantitative approach with a non-experimental, descriptive cross-sectional design, through a sample made up of 329 university students, 196 women and 133 men, aged between 18 and 26 years. For the evaluation, the Cyber Dating Abuse Questionnaire (CDAQ) was used, which is composed of 40 items that evaluate victimization and perpetration in parallel on two scales: direct aggression and control / monitoring. The results showed that the behaviors that are repeated the most, both in the role of victim and in that of aggressor, they are those of control and monitoring, also showing that there are no statistically significant differences with respect to the percentage of the subscales according to sex, reaffirming the need to continue investigating and generating tools to respond to this phenomenon.

Keywords : Gender cyber-violence; university students; engagement.

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