Este artículo estudia la violencia digital nacida con las nuevas formas de comunicación a través de internet en la pareja sentimental. Tras la revisión teórica, se detecta la falta de un instrumento que mida tal violencia digital, entendida como aquella violencia ejercida mediante los dispositivos electrónicos de uso común dentro de la pareja sentimental en forma de control, acoso, abuso y coacción. El objetivo de esta investigación es la construcción y validación del cuestionario de Violencia Digital (en inglés Digital Violence Questionnaire, DVQ). Para ello se han utilizado las técnicas de juicio de personas expertas, trabajo de campo y análisis factorial exploratorio. Se realizó un muestreo bietápico aleatorio por conglomerados en la Universidad de Huelva (España) formado por 528 estudiantes. Tras un pilotaje y un grupo de personas expertas, resultó un instrumento de 90 ítems, subdivididos en cinco bloques de evaluación, además de las variables sociodemográficas y variables relacionales en el noviazgo. El formato de respuesta es de tipo Likert con carácter bidireccional en algunas preguntas, permitiendo medir la perpetración y victimización en la prevalencia de esta violencia. La fiabilidad del cuestionario mediante el coeficiente alfa de Cronbach fue de 0,945. Tras el análisis factorial exploratorio, el análisis de componentes principales y la rotación varimax, se obtuvo una solución factorial de 7 factores y un total de 55 ítems. Se concluye que el cuestionario de Violencia Digital (DVQ), resulta un instrumento válido y fiable, adecuado para la detección y prevención de la violencia digital.

This research studies the prevalence of digital violence exercised through new information and communication technology (ICT) among university couples. A comparative study was carried out in England, United Kingdom, and in Spain with 831 participants. A quantitative methodology was applied with different sampling: in the United Kingdom, 303 (M_Age = 22.79; SD; 47.32; 58.7% male) and in Spain, 528 (M_Age = 24.29; SD = 21.41; 69.5% female). An ad hoc questionnaire was used, created for the detection, measurement and analysis of digital violence within affective-sexual relationships. The results reveal proportions of 51.04% and 49.82% in the perception of digital violence through electronic devices in dating relationships among young people; 15.84% and 11.05% in the prevalence of digital violence in young couples’ relationships; 9.36% and 6.17% in the prevalence of traditional violence; and 35.78% and 22.43% in the tolerance of digital violence among students, for the English and Spanish samples, respectively. The results also show a slightly lower prevalence of digital violence in the Spanish sample with respect to the English sample, where females scored slightly higher in the perpetration of digital violence. There is a need to develop awareness, training and prevention programs against digital violence in the university context.

The complexity of the challenges posed by the 21st century calls for innovation, especially in the field of education, due to its presence, relevance and potential for the generation of solutions, forms of action and education that can be assumed by citizens, mainly those who are immersed in their educational process. For this reason, the aim of this work is to propose active methodologies as suitable means for implementing educational innovation centred on social processes, which place people at the centre of the phenomenon, as beings in formation and, likewise, as creators and maintainers of innovations that promote well-being. Initially, it outlines the difficulties of the pedagogical renewal effort, in some of its fundamental texts and moments, to respond to the challenges and threats faced by contemporary societies, discussing some relevant notions of theory and Philosophy of Education. This contribution then attempts to add to the ongoing reflections on the Philosophy of innovation, as a discipline in germ, which must in turn be linked to a proposal for a Philosophy of educational innovation. The aim is then to problematise, under these theoretical premises, pedagogical creativity and action programmes linked to the tradition of activism and the recent proposals of Active Learning Methodologies, through the contribution of the social approach to educational innovation.

Sexuality is a central aspect for all human beings. Research into the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in pregnant Spanish women is scarce. The aim of this work is to examine the prevalence of risk of sexual dysfunctions in pregnant Spanish women and determine in which trimester the greatest difficulties in sexual response occur. The sample consisted of 180 pregnant Spanish women, with an average age of 32.03 years (SD = 4.93). The participants completed a questionnaire for socio-demographic data, as well as the female sexual function index, the state/trait depression inventory, and the dyadic adjustment scale. The results indicate that the percentage of women with a risk of sexual dysfunction was 65% in the first trimester and 81.11% in the third trimester. Likewise, the highest score on the depression questionnaire was in the third trimester, and the couple’s relationship also improved in the third trimester. To improve women’s sex lives during pregnancy, it is recommended to increase sexual education and information for both pregnant women and their partners.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have given rise to new forms of contact as well as new forms of violence. This research analyses whether ICTs are the cause of a new form of digital violence and studies the prevalence of this digital violence exercised through screens among university couples. A quantitative and qualitative methodology was applied in this study: a non-probabilistic purposive or discretionary sample of 303 (Age = 22.79; SD = 47.32; 58.7% male), with the use of an ad hoc questionnaire, and two focus groups of students studying in the same country. The results reveal a prevalence of 51.04% in the perception of digital violence through electronic devices in dating relationships among young people; 15.84% in the prevalence of digital violence in young couples’ relationships; 9.36% in the prevalence of traditional violence; and 35.78% in the tolerance of digital violence among young people. The results highlight a slightly higher prevalence of women compared with men in digital violence. We conclude that there is a significant prevalence of digital violence among these young couples in the university context, which should be the subject of the creation of different awareness-raising, prevention and specific training programmes against it.

There is currently a scarcity of training proposals at university related with sex and affective education. The present work analyzes the impact on university students of an intervention in sex education implemented through training programs, in both virtual and in-person formats. A study was conducted with 143 participants enrolled in different university degrees, following a quasi-experimental (pre–post) method with three groups, through the administration of a questionnaire composed by 138 items organized into five scales and was collected at three different times of measurement (previous evaluation, evaluation after the training period, and a final evaluation three months after the training). The results indicate that the students experienced a significant improvement on their knowledge about sexuality, with a ceiling effect detected in the scores of concepts such as attitude towards sex education, gender-based violence, intercultural sentimental relationships, and self-esteem. The conclusions revealed the need to introduce sex and affective education training in the teaching and learning processes in university contexts, through the official curricula of the undergraduate and post-graduate degrees that focus on human groups.