A study by VIO-STRATEGY has observed a high incidence rate of gender-based violence among younger generations of adults.
Recently, this article was published titled “High prevelance of intimate partner violence against women in young adults: Is prevention failing?” and was elaborated by researchers Enrique Gracia, Magaly García-Senlle, Manuel Martín-Fernández and Marisol Lila.
Throughout the last decades, the world has been taking measures in order to prevent gender-based violence in our societies. Considering this, a gradual reduction in the incidence rate of intimate partner violence was expected in the younger generations. However, the international data in relation to this prevelance has not shown this type of reduction.
The scientific study carried out by the reasearchers from VIO-STRATEGY has shown a phenemonon happing in Spain that can also be observed internationally--a high incidence rate of gender-based violence among younger generations of adults
Using rigorous psychometric methods to analyze the data from the last macro-survey on gender violence in Spain, the research group has observed that women aged 18 to 24 years showed the highest rates of all three types of gender-based violence (physical, psychological and sexual),
both during the last 4 years and in the last year.
In order to understand this phenomenon, this study proposes a set of explanatory hypotheses that allow us to understand this persistantly high incidence rate of gender-based violence in the younger generations of adults. This is, however, a question that still remains unanswered.
The prevention efforts must be directed toward younger generations if we want to erradicate gender-based violence in the long term.
However, this goal can only be reached if the prevention methods prove efficient.
