Latzman Natasha E, Vivolo-Kantor Alana M, Holditch Niolon Phyllis, Ghazarian Sharon R
Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia.
Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia.
Am J Prev Med. 2015 Sep;49(3):476-82. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.06.006.
Exposure to adult intimate partner violence (IPV) places youth at risk for a range of outcomes, including perpetration of adolescent dating violence (ADV). However, there is variability in the effect of IPV exposure, as many youth who are exposed to IPV do not go on to exhibit problems. Thus, research is needed to examine contextual factors, such as parenting practices, to more fully explain heterogeneity in outcomes and better predict ADV perpetration. The current research draws from a multisite study to investigate the predictive power of IPV exposure and parenting practices on subsequent ADV perpetration.
Participants included 417 adolescents (48.7% female) drawn from middle schools in high-risk, urban communities. IPV exposure, two types of parenting practices (positive parenting/involvement and parental knowledge of their child's dating), and five types of ADV perpetration (threatening behaviors, verbal/emotional abuse, relational abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse) were assessed at baseline (2012) and approximately 5 months later (2013) via adolescent report. Analyses (conducted in 2015) used a structural equation modeling approach.
Structural models indicated that IPV exposure was positively related only to relational abuse at follow-up. Further, adolescents who reported parents having less knowledge of dating partners were more likely to report perpetrating two types of ADV (physical and verbal/emotional abuse) at follow-up. Analyses did not demonstrate any significant interaction effects.
Results fill a critical gap in understanding of important targets to prevent ADV in middle school and highlight the important role that parents may play in ADV prevention.
遭受成人亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）会使青少年面临一系列不良后果的风险，包括实施青少年约会暴力（ADV）。然而，接触IPV的影响存在差异，因为许多接触过IPV的青少年并未出现问题。因此，需要开展研究以考察诸如养育方式等背景因素，以便更全面地解释结果的异质性并更好地预测ADV的实施情况。当前的研究借鉴了一项多地点研究，以调查IPV暴露和养育方式对后续ADV实施的预测能力。
参与者包括从高风险城市社区的中学抽取的417名青少年（48.7%为女性）。通过青少年报告在基线时（2012年）和大约5个月后（2013年）评估IPV暴露、两种养育方式（积极养育/参与以及父母对其子女约会情况的了解）和五种ADV实施类型（威胁行为、言语/情感虐待、关系虐待、身体虐待和性虐待）。分析（于2015年进行）采用了结构方程建模方法。
结构模型表明，IPV暴露仅与随访时的关系虐待呈正相关。此外，报告称父母对约会对象了解较少的青少年在随访时更有可能报告实施两种类型的ADV（身体虐待和言语/情感虐待）。分析未显示任何显著的交互作用。
研究结果填补了在理解预防中学ADV重要目标方面的关键空白，并突出了父母在预防ADV中可能发挥的重要作用。
