title: Dating violence perpetration and victimization among South Korean college students: a focus on gender and childhood maltreatment.
abstract: Unlike the attention given to intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults in western societies, dating violence is not currently recognized in South Korea as a social phenomenon in terms of research, prevention, and intervention. Childhood maltreatment has been identified in previous research as a risk factor for violence in a later dating relationship. This study examines the relationship between childhood maltreatment and physical and psychological dating violence perpetration and victimization among 1,399 college students in South Korea, with a specific focus on gender. Poisson regression models and tests of equivalent parameters were conducted to determine whether the observed relationships were invariant across gender. Findings indicated that childhood maltreatment is a consistent predictor of involvement in dating relationships characterized by violence for males and females. The implications of the current research within a cultural context are discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado-Denver, 1380 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA. angela.gover@ucdenver.edu
authors.forename: Angela R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Gover
authors.forename: MiRang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Tomsich
authors.forename: Wesley G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Jennings
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012747:Sexual Partners; D055815:Young Adult