The Growing Concern About Cyber Dating Abuse Among Teens
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The goal of Danks' study was to expand knowledge about the types of violence and abuse experiences youth have via technology (e.g., social networking sites, texting on cell phones), and how the experience of such cyber abuse within teen dating relationships or through bullying relates to other life factors.
Dank and Zweig found that just over a quarter of youth in a current or recent relationship experienced cyber dating abuse victimization, with girls more likely to experience abuse than boys.
Victims of sexually oriented cyber abuse are seven times more likely to experience sexual coercion.
These and other findings from a survey of 5,647 youth in three northeastern states shed new light on how technology is used to perpetrate abuse and sexual violence among youth, as well as implications for prevention and intervention.
Dank and Zweig also found that one in four dating teens is abused or harassed online or through texts by their partners, according to the largest survey to date on the subject.
Social networking sites, texts, cell phones and e-mails haven’t pushed abuse rates up, but they have given abusers another way to control, degrade and frighten their partners, even when apart.
Digital harassment also warns of a deeper pattern of abuse offline.
Victims are two times as likely to be physically abused, two and a half times as likely to be psychologically abused and five times as likely to be sexually coerced.
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