DATING RELATIONSHIPS: IMPLICATIONS

* The authors each contriiuted equally to this pap. The authors wish to acknowledge Becky Wylie Jardine for her assistance in the collection of the data. Dating violence among students is one of the more common types of campus violence facing university administratorsandserviceproviders.This study provides a descriptive analysis of the nature and extent of self-reported use of aggression as well as victimization in dating relationships among random samples of 995 cur-rently dating and 1.39 l never married students at a large urban university. Results indicate that dating violence is limited to relatively minor acts of aggression and is more likely in relationships of greater degrees of intimacy and commitment Bothmalesandfemalesreportusingphysi-cal aggression against dating partners and both also report vi- 'on by their parinem. Most such inci-dknces occur off campus and few report their victimiza-tion to campus agencies designed to handle domestic violence. Implications for campus d c t providers are discusse