A CURRENT MODE OF GENDER VIOLENCE IN COUPLES OF YOUNG PEOPLE: SOCIAL NETWORKS

Abstract

The aim of this study is knowing if young couples relationships are affected by the use of social networks and nowadays these are turned into a new kind of domestic violence. A lot of cases of the wrong use of data, images, passwords, couple’s privacy or the social victimism because of the spite are set out according to a questionnaire. It has been composed by 10 items and arguing groups, 511 teenagers as participants from 16 to 19 years old from Huelva and Granada (Spain).
This way is changed into a measure of control and violence in the couples. Firstly, the questionnaire was distributed and three arguing groups were elaborated among the participants. Information has been analyzed in a quantitative and qualitative way. Most of people state that they don’t develop and get these types of behaviours as measure of pressure. However, social networks have been found to be used to intimidate, control the couple, usurp the character and even the violation of privacy after the couples’ break ups. Besides, most of the survey respondents appreciate the boys’ behaviours towards their couples as «usual» and «expected» because of the confidence and the claimed love. These are called domestic violence. It’s necessary a bigger training in the use of social networks and to promote different measures of couple’s violence through these systems.