University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2020 Sep;35(17-18):3554-3580. doi: 10.1177/0886260517710486. Epub 2017 May 29.
The purpose of this study is to examine the applicability of Akers's Social Learning Theory (SLT) to explain intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization. In doing so, we draw on the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence Theory (IGT) to extend the scope of SLT to the explanation of victimization and for a consideration of uniquely gendered pathways in its causal structure. Using a structural equation modeling approach with self-report data from a sample of college students, the present study tests the extent to which SLT can effectively explain and predict IPV victimization and the degree, if any, to which the social learning model is gender invariant. Although our findings are largely supportive of SLT and, thus, affirm its extension to victimization as well as perpetration, the findings are also somewhat mixed. More significantly, in line with IGT literature, we find that the social learning process is gender invariant. The implications of the latter are discussed.
本研究旨在探讨 Akers 的社会学习理论（SLT）在解释亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）受害中的适用性。为此，我们借鉴了暴力代际传递理论（IGT），将 SLT 的范围扩展到对受害的解释，并考虑到其因果结构中独特的性别化途径。本研究使用结构方程建模方法，利用大学生样本的自我报告数据，检验了 SLT 在多大程度上可以有效地解释和预测 IPV 受害，以及社会学习模型在多大程度上是性别不变的。尽管我们的研究结果在很大程度上支持 SLT，从而肯定了它对受害和犯罪行为的扩展，但研究结果也有些混杂。更重要的是，与 IGT 文献一致，我们发现社会学习过程是性别不变的。讨论了后者的含义。
