Research on the Effects of Preventive Education on Dating Violence: A Trial Study by the Method of Context Analysis

Abstract

  This study considered the difficulties of preventive education on dating violence. We analyzed the pre-and-post-question descriptions of high school students who received dating violence prevention education. The method used context analysis, which can be read and quantified from the context. We visualized the educational effects by the appearance of the substantial entities (semantic combinations of words). The words “human rights” and “gender” that we supporters expected to find rated lower on the scale, such as 28th and 29th place. However, the words such as “the feelings of the other person,” “my feelings,” “each other,” “equal relationships,” and “my opinions” frequently appeared, and these words could raise the conscious awareness of human rights or gender. Therefore, we can say that preventive education provides students with necessary information. We also found that each group provided appropriate preventive education according to students’ situations. Indeed, there was a limit to the context analysis in which we analyzed the meanings manually. However, if we continue to utilize machine learning systems in the future, we can expect more effective preventive education.