RT Journal Article
T1 Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship
A1 Arbinaga, Félix
A1 Mendoza Sierra, María Isabel
A1 Caraballo Aguilar, Belén María
A1 Buiza Calzadilla, Irene
A1 Torres Rosado, Lidia
A1 Bernal López, Miriam
A1 García Martínez, Julia
A1 Fernández Ozcorta, Eduardo José
AB Background: Emotional dependency in couples involves excessive and dysfunctionalemotional bonding. Aims: This work aimed to determine the relationship between violence, jealousy,and ambivalent sexism according to emotional dependence in adolescent student couples. Methods:A cross-sectional study. A total of 234 Spanish adolescents (69.7% female, Mage = 16.77, SD = 1.11)participated in the study. Participants completed an ad hoc interview and several validated tests(Partner’s Emotional Dependency Scale, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, the Jealousy subscale ofthe Love Addiction Scale, the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationship Inventory). Results: Ofthe sample, 40.6% indicated high emotional dependence and 14.5% extreme emotional dependence.Differences were observed according to gender (t = 3.92, p < 0.001), with adolescent boys scoringhigher than adolescent girls. Extremely emotionally dependent participants showed differences inboth violence (sexual, relational, verbal, and physical) and ambivalent sexism (hostile, benevolent)and jealousy scores. Generating a predictive model of emotional dependence, with the variablejealousy and ambivalent sexism as predictor variables, it was found that jealousy has the greatestpredictive and major explanatory capacity (R2 = 0.297); with an R2 = 0.334. However, the contributionof the ASI-Hostile subscale was not significant when the ASI-Benevolent subscale was introduced intothe model. Further, in a second model where the scores on jealousy and the couple conflict inventory’ssubscales were considered as predictors, are again jealousy makes the greatest predictive contributionand shows the greatest explanatory capacity (R2 = 0.296). It was found that the contribution issignificant only for the predictive capacity of Sexual Violence and Relational Violence. In this sense,the educational context is one of the propitious places to detect and correct behaviors that may beindicative of potentially unbalanced and unbalancing relationships for adolescents.
PB MDPI
SN 2227-9067 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20891
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20891
LA eng
NO Arbinaga, F., Mendoza-Sierra, M. I., Caraballo-Aguilar, B. M., Buiza-Calzadilla, I., Torres-Rosado, L., Bernal-López, M., García-Martínez, J., & Fernández-Ozcorta, E. J. (2021). Jealousy, Violence, and Sexual Ambivalence in Adolescent Students According to Emotional Dependency in the Couple Relationship. In Children (Vol. 8, Issue 11, p. 993). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8110993
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026