Merten Michael J
Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University, 1111 Main Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74106, USA.
Adolescence. 2008 Spring;43(169):31-56.
This study uses a vignette-based survey design to examine the relationship between both respondent-level and case-level characteristics and the acceptability of violence in dating relationships. Measures of sports participation, competitiveness, and the need to win (respondent characteristics) were administered to 661 male and female late adolescents. Participants also rated the acceptability of violence portrayed in a series of couple interaction vignettes varying along three dimensions: initiator act, recipient reaction, and initator-recipient gender combinations (case characteristics). Results from a multilevel analysis show that with regard to respondent characteristics, only the need to win is related (positively) to the acceptability of dating violence, not sports participation or competitiveness. With regard to case characteristics, recipient reaction has the strongest relationship, suggesting that how a victim of violence reacts may be a more important predictor (negative relationship) of the acceptability of dating violence than the initial act of violence. Overall, case characteristics explain three times more variation in the acceptability of dating violence than respondent characteristics (30% vs. 10%).
本研究采用基于 vignette 的调查设计，以检验受访者层面和案例层面的特征与约会关系中暴力行为可接受性之间的关系。对661名青少年晚期的男性和女性进行了体育参与、竞争力和获胜需求（受访者特征）的测量。参与者还对一系列在三个维度上变化的情侣互动 vignette 中所描绘的暴力行为的可接受性进行了评分：发起者行为、接受者反应以及发起者 - 接受者性别组合（案例特征）。多层次分析的结果表明，就受访者特征而言，只有获胜需求与约会暴力的可接受性（呈正相关）有关，而体育参与或竞争力则不然。就案例特征而言，接受者反应的关系最为强烈，这表明暴力受害者的反应可能比暴力的初始行为更能预测（呈负相关）约会暴力的可接受性。总体而言，案例特征对约会暴力可接受性的解释变异比受访者特征多两倍（30% 对 10%）。
