Item #757
When teenage emotional IPV occurs, boys are much more likely than girls to perpetrate as a result of “messing around” (45% vs. 39%), while girls are much more likely than boys to perpetrate for “negative reasons” (read – control, coercion, force, etc.) (45% vs. 38%)
Topic: Violence, Intimate Partner
Source
Citation: Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 79
Author(s): Barter, McCarry, Berridge, Evans
Institution(s): NSPCC
Link: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/research-reports/partner-exploitation-violence-teenage-intimate-relationships-report.pdf?affId=1991357
Nation(s): United Kingdom
Year(s): 2009
Source: Primary
Type: Survey
Discussion
Other Notes:
i.e. – boys are more likely to hurt on accident, girls more likely to hurt on purpose | “Negative reasons for violence included: to hurt them, due to their behaviour, jealousy, to impress others, to get what I wanted, anger, to humiliate them and drinking/drugs.”
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