[Violence in intimate relationships among young university students: theoretical reflections in the light of...

Violence in intimate relationships is considered a serious health, social and relational problem, since its forms and consequences directly prejudice the human rights and health of the people involved and are not restricted to the context of conjugal violence. The scope of this article is to present the contributions of the Bioecological Theory of Human Development in the analysis of violence in intimate relationships among young university students. It was possible to reflect on the triad: youth, violence and intimate relationships, as a set of social relationships, considering the contextual influences, historical and political processes that constitute a subjectivity in the world. In view of the theoretical model of the diagram of Urie Bronfenbrenner's theory, the levels of the environment of a university community and the more distal points may be related to IRV, and the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the young person and their partner were revealed. In this manner, it is possible to observe the importance of theoretical reflections from the ecological environment on the subject, in the sense of understanding it as a complex, multi-causal phenomenon that is interconnected and connected with violence in intimate relationships.