Reyes H Luz McNaughton, Foshee Vangie A, Klevens Joanne, Tharp Andra Teten, Chapman Mimi V, Chen May S, Ennett Susan T
Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
J Aggress Maltreat Trauma. 2016;25(8):773-792. doi: 10.1080/10926771.2016.1210270. Epub 2016 Aug 12.
Despite theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting that the family environment plays a central role in Latino youth development, relatively little is known about how family processes influence dating violence victimization among Latino adolescents. To address this gap in the literature, we used data from 210 Latino parents and their 13- to 15-year-old adolescents to examine associations between several different family processes, including both parenting practices (parent monitoring, parent-adolescent communication) and aspects of the family relational climate (family cohesion, family conflict, acculturation conflict) and psychological, physical, and sexual dating violence victimization. Consistent with expectations, lower levels of family cohesion and higher levels of family and acculturation conflict were associated with risk for dating violence victimization, although associations varied depending on victimization type. In contrast, neither parental monitoring nor parent-adolescent communication was significantly associated with any type of dating violence victimization. In addition, we found that parent, but not teen, Anglo-American acculturation was associated with higher dating violence victimization risk. Findings suggest that family-based dating abuse prevention programs for Latino youth should seek to increase family cohesion and decrease family conflict, including acculturation-based conflict.
尽管有理论和实证证据表明家庭环境在拉丁裔青少年发展中起着核心作用，但对于家庭过程如何影响拉丁裔青少年约会暴力受害情况，我们所知相对较少。为了填补这一文献空白，我们使用了来自210名拉丁裔父母及其13至15岁青少年的数据，来检验几种不同家庭过程之间的关联，包括养育方式（父母监督、亲子沟通）以及家庭关系氛围的各个方面（家庭凝聚力、家庭冲突、文化适应冲突）与心理、身体和性方面的约会暴力受害情况。与预期一致，较低的家庭凝聚力以及较高的家庭和文化适应冲突水平与约会暴力受害风险相关，尽管这种关联因受害类型而异。相比之下，父母监督和亲子沟通均与任何类型的约会暴力受害情况无显著关联。此外，我们发现父母而非青少年的英美文化适应与更高的约会暴力受害风险相关。研究结果表明，针对拉丁裔青少年的基于家庭的约会虐待预防项目应致力于增强家庭凝聚力并减少家庭冲突，包括基于文化适应的冲突。
