Adolescent dating violence and the contributing role of child maltreatment

Project title

Adolescent dating violence and the contributing role of child maltreatment

Project manager

Sidsel Karsberg

Project description

Goal:
The goal of the PhD project “Dating Violence” is to gather information about the prevalence of violence among Danish adolescents, as well as, identifying and classifying interplaying protective and risk factors.

Objective:
The objective of the project is to strengthen current knowledge in order to target preventive interventions more effectively in the future.

Perspective:
The study will chart violent behavior in intimate and "dating" relationships among students in the 7th grade.

Start date and expected end date

2013 - 2018

Main supervisor

Ask Elklit, Professor, Department of Psychology, SDU

The project is carried out under

National Centre of Psychotraumatology Research Group

Collaborators

Funding

Department of Psychology, SDU

Keywords

dating violence, dating relationships among students, preventive interventions, violence among Danish adolescents