RT journal article
T1 Digital Violence in Affective-Sexual Relationships among Spanish University Students
A1 García Rojas, Antonio Daniel
A1 Montero Fernández, Delia
A1 Hernando Gómez, Angel
A1 Río Olvera, Francisco Javier del
A2 Psicología
K1 digital violence
K1 DVQ
K1 cyberstalking
K1 university students
K1 social networks
K1 information and communication technology
AB Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have brought about new forms ofcontact and interpersonal relationships, as well as a new space in which to deploy digital violencein the form of abuse, harassment, intimidation and behaviours of control and coercion throughelectronic media. This research analyses whether ICTs are the cause of a new form of digitalviolence and studies the prevalence of this digital violence exercised through screens amonguniversity couples. Applying a quantitative methodology, a two-stage random cluster sampling of528 (MAge = 24.29; SD = 21.41; 69.5 % female) Spanish university students was carried out. As aresearch instrument, we used the Digital Violence Questionnaire (DVQ), created for the detection,measurement and analysis of digital violence within affective-sexual relationships, which iscomposed of seven factors and a total of 55 variables presented in 30 items. The main results byfactors were: factor 1, "Cyberstalking of the other", 10.89 %; factor 2, "Coercive Control", 11.72 %;factor 3, "Emotional Abuse", 18.37 %; factor 4, "Denigration", 6.86 %; factor 5, "First personCyberstalking", 10.58 %; factor 6, "Isolation", 14.51 %; factor 7, "Domination" 20.02 %. Thus,the results show a slight tolerance towards digital violence among Spanish students, with a lowprevalence where women have the highest percentages. Despite this, it is concluded that, takinginto account the impact that electronic media have on younger populations in their socialinteractions and interpersonal relationships, the educational and university context should be theobject of the creation of different awareness, prevention and specific training programmes againstthis digital violence.
PB Cherkas Global University Press
SN 2305-6746
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32801
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32801
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026