Abstract

Recently, social problems related to dating violence have been increasing day by day. It is necessary to find clues to solve this problem by deeply exploring the experience of dating violence in early adult males, who are considered perpetrators of dating violence. For this purpose, interviews were conducted with 6 early adult males who experienced dating violence. The collected data were analyzed through Phenomenology method. As a result, early adult male’s dating violence experience were categorized into 38 sub categories and 10 essential categories. The early adult male’s dating violence experience "I'm the victim of obsession," "Endless conflict relationship problem," "Love with poor romantic relationship satisfaction," "Injury and shame that touched a man's pride," "Uncontrollable anger and impulses," and "the injustice of the offense". These results were discussed in comparative analysis with previous studies and limitations were also presented.