Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship

Background: Emotional dependency in couples involves excessive and dysfunctional emotional bonding. Aims: This work aimed to determine the relationship between violence, jealousy, and ambivalent sexism according to emotional dependence in adolescent student couples. Methods: A cross-sectional study....

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Autores principales:	Félix Arbinaga, María Isabel Mendoza-Sierra, Belén María Caraballo-Aguilar, Irene Buiza-Calzadilla, Lidia Torres-Rosado, Miriam Bernal-López, Julia García-Martínez, Eduardo José Fernández-Ozcorta
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	sexism gender violence emotional dependency youth abuse Pediatrics RJ1-570
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:953558ff98994026893d3760d4bd4c712021-11-25T17:14:20ZJealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship10.3390/children81109932227-9067https://doaj.org/article/953558ff98994026893d3760d4bd4c712021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/11/993https://doaj.org/toc/2227-9067Background: Emotional dependency in couples involves excessive and dysfunctional emotional bonding. Aims: This work aimed to determine the relationship between violence, jealousy, and ambivalent sexism according to emotional dependence in adolescent student couples. Methods: A cross-sectional study. A total of 234 Spanish adolescents (69.7% female, <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 16.77, <i>SD</i> = 1.11) participated in the study. Participants completed an ad hoc interview and several validated tests (Partner’s Emotional Dependency Scale, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, the Jealousy subscale of the Love Addiction Scale, the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationship Inventory). Results: Of the sample, 40.6% indicated high emotional dependence and 14.5% extreme emotional dependence. Differences were observed according to gender (<i>t</i> = 3.92, <i>p</i> < 0.001), with adolescent boys scoring higher than adolescent girls. Extremely emotionally dependent participants showed differences in both violence (sexual, relational, verbal, and physical) and ambivalent sexism (hostile, benevolent) and jealousy scores. Generating a predictive model of emotional dependence, with the variable jealousy and ambivalent sexism as predictor variables, it was found that jealousy has the greatest predictive and major explanatory capacity (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.297); with an <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.334. However, the contribution of the ASI-Hostile subscale was not significant when the ASI-Benevolent subscale was introduced into the model. Further, in a second model where the scores on jealousy and the couple conflict inventory’s subscales were considered as predictors, are again jealousy makes the greatest predictive contribution and shows the greatest explanatory capacity (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.296). It was found that the contribution is significant only for the predictive capacity of Sexual Violence and Relational Violence. In this sense, the educational context is one of the propitious places to detect and correct behaviors that may be indicative of potentially unbalanced and unbalancing relationships for adolescents.Félix ArbinagaMaría Isabel Mendoza-SierraBelén María Caraballo-AguilarIrene Buiza-CalzadillaLidia Torres-RosadoMiriam Bernal-LópezJulia García-MartínezEduardo José Fernández-OzcortaMDPI AGarticlesexismgenderviolenceemotional dependencyyouthabusePediatricsRJ1-570ENChildren, Vol 8, Iss 993, p 993 (2021)
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topic	sexism gender violence emotional dependency youth abuse Pediatrics RJ1-570
spellingShingle	sexism gender violence emotional dependency youth abuse Pediatrics RJ1-570 Félix Arbinaga María Isabel Mendoza-Sierra Belén María Caraballo-Aguilar Irene Buiza-Calzadilla Lidia Torres-Rosado Miriam Bernal-López Julia García-Martínez Eduardo José Fernández-Ozcorta Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
description	Background: Emotional dependency in couples involves excessive and dysfunctional emotional bonding. Aims: This work aimed to determine the relationship between violence, jealousy, and ambivalent sexism according to emotional dependence in adolescent student couples. Methods: A cross-sectional study. A total of 234 Spanish adolescents (69.7% female, <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 16.77, <i>SD</i> = 1.11) participated in the study. Participants completed an ad hoc interview and several validated tests (Partner’s Emotional Dependency Scale, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, the Jealousy subscale of the Love Addiction Scale, the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationship Inventory). Results: Of the sample, 40.6% indicated high emotional dependence and 14.5% extreme emotional dependence. Differences were observed according to gender (<i>t</i> = 3.92, <i>p</i> < 0.001), with adolescent boys scoring higher than adolescent girls. Extremely emotionally dependent participants showed differences in both violence (sexual, relational, verbal, and physical) and ambivalent sexism (hostile, benevolent) and jealousy scores. Generating a predictive model of emotional dependence, with the variable jealousy and ambivalent sexism as predictor variables, it was found that jealousy has the greatest predictive and major explanatory capacity (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.297); with an <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.334. However, the contribution of the ASI-Hostile subscale was not significant when the ASI-Benevolent subscale was introduced into the model. Further, in a second model where the scores on jealousy and the couple conflict inventory’s subscales were considered as predictors, are again jealousy makes the greatest predictive contribution and shows the greatest explanatory capacity (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.296). It was found that the contribution is significant only for the predictive capacity of Sexual Violence and Relational Violence. In this sense, the educational context is one of the propitious places to detect and correct behaviors that may be indicative of potentially unbalanced and unbalancing relationships for adolescents.
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author	Félix Arbinaga María Isabel Mendoza-Sierra Belén María Caraballo-Aguilar Irene Buiza-Calzadilla Lidia Torres-Rosado Miriam Bernal-López Julia García-Martínez Eduardo José Fernández-Ozcorta
author_facet	Félix Arbinaga María Isabel Mendoza-Sierra Belén María Caraballo-Aguilar Irene Buiza-Calzadilla Lidia Torres-Rosado Miriam Bernal-López Julia García-Martínez Eduardo José Fernández-Ozcorta
author_sort	Félix Arbinaga
title	Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
title_short	Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
title_full	Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
title_fullStr	Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
title_full_unstemmed	Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
title_sort	jealousy, violence, and sexual ambivalence in adolescent students according to emotional dependency in the couple relationship
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/953558ff98994026893d3760d4bd4c71
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Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship

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