Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Niagara University, New York, NY 14109, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2009 Mar;38(3):323-39. doi: 10.1007/s10964-008-9347-y. Epub 2008 Oct 16.
Links between living in a partner-violent home and subsequent aggressive and antisocial behavior are suggested by the "cycle of violence" hypothesis derived from social learning theory. Although there is some empirical support, to date, findings have been generally limited to cross-sectional studies predominantly of young children, or retrospective studies of adults. We address this issue with prospective data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS), an ongoing longitudinal investigation of the development of antisocial behavior in a community sample of 1,000 urban youth followed from age 14 to adulthood. The original panel included 68% African American, 17% Hispanic, and 15% White participants, and was 72.9% male, and 27.1% female. Measures come from a combination of sources including interviews with parents, interviews with youth, and official records. We test the general hypothesis that there is a relationship between living in partner-violent homes during adolescence, and later antisocial behavior and relationship violence. Employing logistic regression and controlling for related covariates, including child physical abuse, we find a significant relationship between exposure to parental violence and adolescent conduct problems. The relationship between exposure to parental violence and measures of antisocial behavior and relationship aggression dissipates in early adulthood, however, exposure to severe parental violence is significantly related to early adulthood violent crime, and intimate partner violence. Our results suggest that exposure to severe parental violence during adolescence is indeed consequential for violent interactions in adulthood.
从社会学习理论衍生而来的“暴力循环”假说表明，生活在充满暴力的家庭环境中与之后的攻击和反社会行为之间存在关联。尽管有一些实证支持，但迄今为止，这些发现通常仅限于横断面研究，主要针对幼儿，或对成年人进行回溯性研究。我们利用罗切斯特青少年发展研究（RYDS）的前瞻性数据解决了这个问题，这是一项对社区样本中 1000 名城市青少年进行的反社会行为发展的持续纵向研究，这些青少年从 14 岁开始一直跟踪到成年。最初的样本包括 68%的非裔美国人、17%的西班牙裔和 15%的白人参与者，其中 72.9%为男性，27.1%为女性。测量结果来自多种来源，包括对父母的访谈、对青少年的访谈和官方记录。我们检验了一个普遍假设，即青少年时期生活在充满暴力的家庭环境中与之后的反社会行为和关系暴力之间存在关系。我们采用逻辑回归并控制了相关协变量，包括儿童身体虐待，发现暴露于父母暴力与青少年行为问题之间存在显著关系。然而，暴露于父母暴力与反社会行为和关系攻击的测量值之间的关系在成年早期就消失了，但暴露于严重的父母暴力与成年早期的暴力犯罪和亲密伴侣暴力显著相关。我们的研究结果表明，青少年时期暴露于严重的父母暴力确实会对成年后的暴力互动产生影响。
