Relatively Few Teen Daters Experience Potentially Controlling or Abusive Behavior % of teen daters who have experienced the following from a currentor former tromanticparter, and whether itoccurred during or after the relationship... Equally likely to happen DURING and AFTER Demanded to know the passwords to your email Used information posted on the internet against you, to harass or
Beyond perpetrating potentially inappropriate or harmful behavior, teen daters also can be the recipients of –possibly more serious – controlling or potentially abusive experiences at the hands of significant others. These questions ask about nine experiences and whether they occur during a relationship and/or after a relationship ends. And like the practices our survey respondents told us they engaged in above, these behaviors and experiences are in some cases dependent on context of the interaction.
Relatively Few Teen Daters Experience Potentially  | Controlling or Abusive Behavior  | % of teen daters who have experienced the following from a currentor  | former tromanticparter, and whether itoccurred during or after the  | relationship...  | More likely to happen DURING than AFTER  | DURING  | AFTER  | Checked up with you multiple times per day asking  | 26  | where you are, who you're with, or what you're doing  | Read your text messages without your permission  | 18  | Used the internet activity or text messages to try to pressure  | 10  | you into sexual activity you didn't want to have  | Equally likely to happen DURING and AFTER  | Made you remove former girlfriends or boyfriends  | 10  | from your friends list on social media  | Demanded to know the passwords to your email  | and Internet accounts  | Contacted you on the internet or your cellphone to  | 8  | threaten to hurt you  | Used information posted on the internet against you, to harass or  | embarrass you  | More likely to happen AFTER  | things Called you names put you down or said really mean  | 8  | 14  | things to you on the internet or your cellphone  | Spread rumors about you on the internet or on the  | 13  | cellphone  | 10-March Source: Pew 16. Research 2015 (n=361 CenterTeens Relationships 13 17 Survey, Sept. 25-Oct. 9. 2014. Frelationship and Feb.  | 10-March 16. 2015 (n=361 teens ages 13 to 17 who Survey, have any type ofromantic Frelationship  | experience).  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 