@article{ref1,
title="School violence towards peers and teen dating violence: the mediating role of personal distress",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2021",
author="López-Crespo, Ginesa and Valdivia-Salas, Sonsoles and Lombas, Andrés S. and Jiménez, Teresa I.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="e310-e310",
abstract="School violence towards peers and teen dating violence are two of the most relevant behaviour problems in adolescents. Although the relationship between the two types  of violence is well established in the literature, few studies have focused on  mediators that could explain this empirical relationship. We departed from the  evidence that relates anger, emotional distress and impaired empathy to teen dating  violence and juvenile sexual offending, to explore the role of personal distress,  i.e., a self-focused, aversive affective reaction to another's emotion associated  with the desire to alleviate one's own, but not the other's distress; as a possible  mechanism linking school violence towards peers and teen dating violence in a sample  of Spanish adolescents. We also explored the prevalence of emotional and physical  teen dating violence, both occasional and frequent, and the differences between boys  and girls. A total of 1055 adolescents (49.2% boys and 50.8% girls) aged between 11  and 17 years (M = 14.06, SD = 1.34) who had had at least one romantic relationship  within the last year, completed measures of school violence towards peers, teen  dating violence, and personal distress. Statistical analyses revealed that  occasional and frequent teen dating violence (both physical and emotional) was more  frequent in girls than in boys, and that personal distress functioned as a partial  mediator, with an overall model fit higher for boys than girls: in boys, partial  mediation occurred for both physical and emotional teen dating violence; in girls,  partial mediation occurred only for physical violence. The interpretation of the  results is tentative given the novel nature of the study, and points to the evidence  of the emotional costs of school violence and the importance of emotion and behavior  regulation to undermine the social costs of personal distress.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph18010310",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010310"
}