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T1 A cross-cultural sequential model of the association between young Spanish and Colombian women victims of power imbalance and suicide risk: The mediating role of dating violence and rumination
A1 Gracia Leiva, Marcela
A1 Ubillos Landa, Silvia
A1 Puente Martínez, Alicia
A1 Arias Rodríguez, Gina
A1 Nieto-Betancour, Lucy
A1 Tobar-Lasso, María José
A1 Páez Rovira, Darío .
K1 Power imbalance
K1 Suicide risk
K1 Dating violence victimization
K1 Rumination
K1 Cross-cultural
K1 Violencia de género-Aspectos psicológicos
K1 Women-Abuse of-Psychological aspects
AB For young women, the power imbalance in favor of males in dating relationships has been related to dating violence (DV) victimization. In addition, the use of rumination to cope with DV may increase their psychological distress. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether experiences of DV and rumination mediate the association between power imbalance and suicide risk (SR). The sample comprised 1,216 young women aged between 18 and 28 years from Colombia (n = 461) and Spain (n = 755), in a heterosexual dating relationship, not married or cohabiting with a partner and without children. The following scales were applied: The Sexual Relationship Power Scale-Modified, The Dating Violence Questionnaire–-R (DVQ-R); Cyberdating Abuse Questionnaire, Measure of Affect Regulation Scale (MARS), and The Spanish Suicide Risk Scale. A sequential mediation paths model was tested. Results indicated that power imbalance was associated with DV victimization. Furthermore, DV was associated with more rumination, which was also linked to a greater SR in both countries. Rumination may be a mechanism through which experiences of DV victimization negatively influence mental health in young women and is an important variable related cross-culturally to SR. The findings suggest an equality approach, addressing the power imbalance in dating relationships, empowering girls to prevent DV, and teaching coping strategies for dealing with victimization and its consequences.
PB SAGE Publications
SN 0886-2605
YR 2023
FD 2023-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11108
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11108
LA eng
NO The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article: This research was funded by CONICYT, Chile/2017, grant number 72180394, awarded to Marcela Gracia Leiva. This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Innovation and Science, Spain (MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/) [PID2020-116658GB-I00PSI], and is part of the I+D+i project PSI2017-84145-P; by grant 2019/00184/001, awarded by the Regional Government of Castilla y León (Spain) to the Social Inclusion and Quality of Life research group; by grant awarded by the Basque Government Ref. GIC12/91 IT–666–13 and Ref. IT1187-19 to the Culture, Cognition and Emotion research group.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 28-abr-2026