Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the actual conditions of dating violence among Korean high school students and determine the patterns of predictors associated with it by multivariate analysis. Participants were 128 male and 178 female students from 3 high schools at Namyangju City who had been involved in a heterosexual dating relationship. Anticipating variables for dating violence were selected by researchers based on social learning theory. Results indicated that 23.4% of male students and 41.1% of female students had been inflicting violence toward their dating partners, and there is significant difference between male and female students. The girls 'threw something' or 'slapped' their dating partners more frequently than the boys did. The girls were more positive toward violence than the boys, while the boys were more exposed to community violence and expressed aggression and playing violent computer game, and drinking than the girls. The remarkable finding on correlational analysis is that there is highly significant relationship between male recipient of dating violence and mother's corporal punishment. And there are significant relationship between recipient of dating violence and community violence, history of aggression, and drinking for both male and female. Logistic regression analysis indicated that community violence and playing violent computer games are predictors of dating violence for male, while father to mother violence, community violence, number of dating partners, and recipient of dating violence are predictors for female.