Mexican youth from impoverished areas are at increased risk for experiencing relationship
violence. Research in the United States has suggested that perpetration may be
contextualized by culturally-influenced gender values, specifically performance of negative
aspects of male masculinity (ie, machismo) and its female counterpart (ie, marianismo). This
study utilized focus group methods to explore how middle school adolescents (N= 98) from a
rural area of Central Mexico differentiate between healthy and unhealthy dating …