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Rev Elec Psic Izt 2014; 17 (1)

The definition of psychological abuse in a sample of college students

Salinas RJL, Espinosa SV

Language: Spanish
References: 53
Page: 58-83
PDF size: 575.23 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Measuring violence in young couples in dating is done with instruments that consider psychological violence as an undifferentiated component of sexual and physical. Some authors consider that psychological abuse is a distinct type, with its own (Follingstad, 2007) and is presented with a high frequency among youth (Chung, 2005). Current data have produced disparate estimates due to the large number of operational definitions of psychological abuse are used, made without considering the idiosyncratic characteristics of the population itself. The aim of this study was to obtain the definition of psychological violence in a group of university students through semantic networks. Natural Semantic Networks Technique was applied to 225 young students from a university undergraduate level (144 women and 81 men) with a mean age of 21 years. It was found that the main defining for both genders was the word "offenses", through which the words are semantically organized such as are screaming, humiliate and blackmail. We conclude that verbal abuse/criticism is the main component through which it gives meaning to what is considered as psychological abuse.


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