The Relationship Between Dating Violence and Ambivalent Sexism Among Emerging Adults: A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to examine the relationship between dating violence and ambivalent sexism in emerging adults. Material and Methods: This study adopted cross-sectional design with 154 participants using convenience sampling. Sociodemographic Information Form, Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and Dating Violence Questionnaire were used as data collection tools. Spearman’s correlations, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis analysis were performed for analysis. Results: A statistically negative low correlation was found between Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and Dating Violence Questionnaire. There was a statistically significant difference between general violence, economic violence and sexual violence by gender, in which women were found to not support attitudes towards dating violence compared to men. We also found that a statistically significant difference in hostile sexism by gender in which the men had higher hostile sexism mean scores than the women. This study highlighted the association between dating violence and ambivalent sexism among emerging adults.