Association between dating violence and personality type in Mexican university students
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Association between dating violence and personality type in Mexican university students Karla L. Cortés-Treviño 1,2 & Adriana Garduño-Alanis 2,3
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Guadalupe Villalobos Monroy 4
Accepted: 29 October 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Violence against women is a global health problem. Some pathological personality traits have been associated with violence. However, the relation between personality type and dating violence, especially in Mexican students, is not fully known. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the relation between personality type and dating violence in female university students of the State of Mexico, Mexico. Cross-sectional study conducted from February to September 2019 at a private university in the State of Mexico, Mexico. Female students of the bachelor’s degrees in the field of health sciences were included. Socio-demographic data, dating violence, and personality type were evaluated through questionnaires. Adjusted logistic regression models were applied, using STATA v.13. Students with an extroverted personality were 2.45 more likely to suffer dating violence (95% CI 1.29 to 4.63), adjusted for covariates. Those who reported childhood abuse (OR = 2.33, 95% CI 1.08 to 5.01) and whom their partners had a history of drug use (OR = 2.78, 95% CI 1.17 to 6.60) or who currently use drugs (OR = 4.85, 95% CI 0.92 to 25.7), were more likely to suffer dating violence, adjusted for covariates. Students with extroverted personality were more likely to experience dating violence, compared to those with introverted personality. The results show the need to produce further research to identify specific traits within extroverted female population which makes them vulnerable to dating violence. Keywords Personality types . Dating violence . Mexico . Cross-sectional study
Introduction Violence against women, especially dating and sexual violence, constitute a serious public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights (WHO, 2017). Thirty five percent of women worldwide have suffered some type of physical and / or sexual dating violence or sexual violence by third parties at some time in their lives (WHO, 2017). This violence can negatively affect their physical, mental, sexual and
* Adriana Garduño-Alanis [email protected] 1
Centro de Investigación Multidisciplinaria en Educación, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
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Research Department, Universidad de la Salud del Estado de México, Vialidad Toluca Atlacomulco 1946 Col. La Aviación, C.P, 50295 Toluca, Mexico
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Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Garman, Santiago de Querétaro, A.C. Querétaro, Mexico
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Facultad de Ciencias de la Conducta, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
reproductive health, and even increase the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases (WHO, 2017). Mexico is one of the 25 countries with the highest prevalence of violence against women (Geneva Declaration Secretariat, 2015). According to the latest national survey on violence against
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