Relationship Dependency, Dating Violence, and Scripts of Female College Students

✍ Scribed by Wendy B. Charkow; Eileen S. Nelson

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 780 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1099-0399
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1882.2000.tb00160.x

✦ Synopsis

This study examined the correlations between the incidence of relationship dependency, the levels of dependency in relationship scripts, and the incidence of dating abuse in a sample of 178 female college students. Results indicated that dependent relationship scripts were significantly and positively correlated with the presence of relationship dependency in dating relationships. Results also indicated that relationship dependency was significantly and positively correlated with the experience of dating abuse, both as victim and as perpetrator. Also, a significant number of the relationship scripts of college females included aspects of dependency and the acceptance of abuse as an acceptable means of conflict resolution.