Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, USA.
Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Sep;36(17-18):NP9994-NP10011. doi: 10.1177/0886260519862269. Epub 2019 Jul 17.
The purpose of our study was to examine how parental stress and coparenting relationship quality were related to dating violence perpetration and victimization among 114 Latinx adolescent mothers. We hypothesized that higher levels of parental stress and lower coparenting quality would be associated with increased dating violence perpetration and victimization. Prior to running a path analysis to test our hypotheses, we examined how frequently the Latinx adolescent mothers in our sample reported perpetrating at least one act of psychological or physical abuse against their partner in the past month. We found that 84.3% of the mothers in our study had perpetrated at least one act of violence against their partner in the past month and 74.7% reported they had been the victim of at least one act of violence by their partner in the past month. After accounting for frequency of contact with the father of their child, we found Latinx adolescent mothers were more likely to perpetrate abuse against, as well as be the victim of abuse by, their partner if they had a lower quality coparenting relationship. However, parental stress was not associated with dating violence perpetration or victimization after accounting for frequency of contact. Our findings show the importance of the quality of the coparenting relationship, above and beyond parental stress, as a predictor of dating violence victimization perpetration, thus highlighting the importance of educating adolescent parents about how to navigate the coparenting relationship.
我们的研究目的是探讨父母压力和共同养育关系质量如何与 114 名拉丁裔青少年母亲的约会暴力侵害和受害有关。我们假设，父母压力水平较高和共同养育质量较低与约会暴力侵害和受害的增加有关。在运行路径分析来检验我们的假设之前，我们检查了我们样本中的拉丁裔青少年母亲在过去一个月内报告至少实施一次心理或身体虐待伴侣的频率。我们发现，我们研究中的 84.3%的母亲在过去一个月内至少实施了一次暴力行为，74.7%的母亲报告说在过去一个月内至少遭受过一次伴侣的暴力行为。在考虑与孩子父亲的接触频率后，我们发现，如果共同养育关系质量较低，拉丁裔青少年母亲更有可能对伴侣实施虐待，也更有可能成为伴侣虐待的受害者。然而，在考虑到接触频率后，父母压力与约会暴力侵害或受害无关。我们的研究结果表明，共同养育关系的质量比父母压力更能预测约会暴力的侵害和实施，因此强调了教育青少年父母如何驾驭共同养育关系的重要性。
