Violencia de pareja en estudiantes de octavo ciclo de la Licenciatura en Psicología. Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca – Azuay, periodo académico 2022

Abstract

Intimate partner violence is a public health phenomenon that largely affects young adult couples with or without a formal relationship, generating physical, psychological or sexual harm against the person with whom an intimate bond is maintained. Partner violence is a little studied topic in the population of adolescents and young adults in the Ecuadorian context, which is why this research aims to determine the incidence of partner violence and its constituent abuse domains, in eighth cycle students of psychology at the University of Cuenca. The study has a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental design, cross-sectional and descriptive scope; the study population consisted of 79 eighth-cycle undergraduate psychology students. The CUVINO dating violence questionnaire was used, which evaluates the violence suffered within couple relationships. The results showed that the domain most frequently involved in partner violence was detachment, at a slight level, present in 50.6% of the study group, followed by the domain of coercion at a slight level, with 44.3%. The domain with the lowest incidence was physical violence, with a slight level, in 3.8% of the total number of participants. It is concluded that intimate partner violence was present at a mild level within the constituent abuse domains in the population studied.