Dating Violence: An Analysis of Existing Literature
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2001
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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Research on dating violence has shown it to be an extremely common phenomenon affecting a large scope of men and women. Early studies attempting to explain the problem focused on risk factors and provided inconclusive evidence. More recent studies have attempted to uncover a connection between dating violence and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity. This paper reviewed the existing dating violence literature and its ability to answer the question of why dating violence occurs. This review found that neither the individual risk factors approach nor the cultural constructions theory were able to explain what causes violence in heterosexual dating relationships. I offer a methodological and conceptual critique of these existing theories and propose new directions of study which may bring us closer to uncovering the root causes of dating violence.