Jealousy, sexism, and romantic love myths: the role of beliefs in online dating violence

Jealousy, sexism, and romantic love myths: the role of beliefs in online dating violence

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With the massification of the Internet and social networks, a new form of dating violence called cyber-violence has emerged, which involves behaviors of control, humiliation, intimidation and threats towards the partner or ex-partner.Using a non-probabilistic sample of 1,001 participants aged 18 to 25 years, the present study used an ex post facto, retrospective, cross-sectional, single-group design to analyze the joint effects that beliefs associated with dating Harry Potter violence such as romantic love myths, jealousy, and sexism have on the victimization and perpetration of cyber-violence.The results evidenced that jealousy is involved in both Strainer Filter Cyber-victimization and Cyber-harassment perpetrated, while sexist beliefs are only involved in perpetration.

In the discussion section, it is postulated that cyber-violence is a phenomenon that is more related to the probability of aggression, but not to the probability of being a victim.Finally, limitations and implications for future research are discussed.