Teenage Relationships Psycho-violence instead of love

Relationships Among Teenagers - There is psycho-pressure instead of romance

05/11/2013

According to one study, over 60 percent of adolescents have had stressful experiences in their first love relationship. The negative experiences include physical or sexual violence. In the age group between 14 and 17, about 66 percent of girls and about 60 percent of boys surveyed experienced mental or physical violence at least once. These were the frightening results of a project at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

The investigation from Hessen was carried out for the first time in Germany. A total of 509 boys and girls from ten schools were interviewed. It is shocking that every fourth girl (26 percent) has already experienced sexual violence in a relationship. For boys, this was just under 13 percent. Looking at the information on physical violence, one finds that every tenth respondent reported it. The sex did not play a decisive role.

Already verbal aggression has negative effects
It is noticeable that, above all, those who have already experienced violence in their home environment in the past are increasingly affected. That violence in teen relationships is so common was not expected. „To prevent further chronicification of violence, adolescents need to learn how to be respectful of each other in dating or relationships“, advises Beate Blättner from the Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

Stressful effects can arise even with simple control by the partner. All the more, verbal aggression, coercion and threats have a negative effect. This can go so far that the health condition, the mental mood and the eating and drinking behavior are morbidly affected. In the worst cases, there were even suicidal thoughts, said Blättner in an interview with the broadcaster „Germany radio“ With.

For the state of Hesse was a study published in 2009 from the United Kingdom on the subject of the reason financial resources for the investigation to provide. There, 80 percent of girls and 51 percent of boys reported emotional violence. (Fr)

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