Cyber dating abuse among adolescents: Unraveling its social, relational and individual antecedents.

Digital technologies have opened up new avenues for perpetrators of teen dating violence to harm, control, stalk or harass their partners. To date, research on the recent phenomenon of adolescent cyber dating abuse has been mainly descriptive in nature and focuses on the link with negative health outcomes and other risk behaviors among victims. Little is known about the antecedents of cyber dating abuse perpetration. In order to design effective prevention strategies, however, research should focus on perpetration and apply complementary theoretical perspectives. This will allow us to compare the predictive power of the various frameworks and to provide educators with information on how to tailor their prevention efforts effectively to the main facilitators of cyber dating abuse perpetration.

Keywords:CYBERDATING, VIOLENCE, DATING

Disciplines:Social work, Other sociology and anthropology, Communication sciences, Journalism and professional writing, Media studies, Other media and communications