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Demography, Population, and Ecology

The University of Texas of the Permian Basin

1997

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Dating Violence Among Adolescents: When Does It Begin?, Kelly S. O'Hearn May 1997

Dating Violence Among Adolescents: When Does It Begin?, Kelly S. O'Hearn

Graduate Theses

Research has investigated dating violence (DV) in high * school populations- yet no studies have examined adolescents in the 7th and 8th grades. The present study investigated the prevalence of DV in the Permian Basin area of West - Texas. Comparisons of the prevalence of DV between junior high (7th & 8th grades), freshman high 4Sth grade)* and senior high school -(lOth, 11th, & 12th-grades) -found no significant differences of used or received DV. The prevalence of DV in the Permian Basin was similar to those found in some studies that used college-student -samples. Significant interactions effects and main effects …