University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Social Work, 1010 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Psychology, 806 W. Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.
J Adolesc. 2018 Oct;68:221-231. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.08.006. Epub 2018 Aug 24.
The current study examined longitudinal and bidirectional relationships between adolescent perceptions of parental support for fighting and nonviolent responses to conflict and dating violence perpetration. These relationships were examined among a sample of predominately African American youth from an economically disadvantaged urban neighborhood in the United States, a group of adolescents who may be at a high risk for dating violence and for receiving a mixture of parental support for how to respond in conflict situations.
Participants were 1014 early adolescents (51% female, 91% African American) who were currently dating or had been recently dating. Adolescents completed measures on their perceptions of parental support for fighting and nonviolent responses to conflict, as well as dating violence perpetration.
Using an autoregressive cross-lagged path analysis across four time points, perceptions of parental support for fighting were inversely associated with changes in perceived parental support for nonviolent responses to conflict, but not with changes in dating violence over time. However, perceived parental support for nonviolent responses to conflict were inversely associated with changes in dating violence perpetration over time.
Although parents in high-burden communities may give a mixture of messages about how to handle conflict, encouraging parents to provide messages supporting nonviolent responses to conflict may protect youth from perpetrating violence within their dating relationships. These findings inform future research directions and dating violence prevention programs.
本研究考察了青少年对父母支持打架和非暴力应对冲突的看法，以及与约会暴力行为之间的纵向和双向关系。这些关系是在美国一个经济贫困的城市社区中，对主要为非裔美国青少年的样本进行研究的，这些青少年可能处于高风险的约会暴力环境中，并且可能同时接受父母在冲突情况下如何做出反应的混合支持。
参与者是 1014 名青少年（51%为女性，91%为非裔美国人），他们目前正在约会或最近曾约会过。青少年完成了关于他们对父母支持打架和非暴力应对冲突的看法，以及约会暴力行为的测量。
通过四次时间点的自回归交叉滞后路径分析，父母支持打架的看法与感知到的父母对非暴力应对冲突的支持的变化呈负相关，但与随时间推移的约会暴力行为的变化无关。然而，感知到的父母对非暴力应对冲突的支持与随时间推移的约会暴力行为的变化呈负相关。
尽管高负担社区的父母可能会提供关于如何处理冲突的混合信息，但鼓励父母提供支持非暴力应对冲突的信息，可能有助于保护青少年免受他们在约会关系中实施暴力的行为。这些发现为未来的研究方向和约会暴力预防计划提供了信息。
