Ontiveros Gabriela, Cantos Arthur, Chen Po-Yi, Charak Ruby, O'Leary K Daniel
Department of Clinical Psychology, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 W University Dr, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA.
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2020 Jul 20;10(7):118. doi: 10.3390/bs10070118.
The present study assesses the extent of perpetration of physical violence in predominately Hispanic high school students in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, exposure to interparental violence, attachment, emotion regulation, and impulsivity on two distinct, mutually exclusive, categories of severity of physical teen dating violence (TDV) perpetration is further explored. Participants completed self-report measures as part of a larger, anonymous web-based questionnaire. Two categories (i.e., minor/moderate and severe) were created to discern the contextual variables associated with different levels of severity of physical violence perpetration by males and females. Eight-hundred and twenty-nine 14- to 18-year-old adolescents from four different high schools participated in the study, of whom 407 reported having been in a dating relationship in the last 12 months. The results demonstrate that when only the most severe item of TDV is taken into consideration, the rates of violence perpetration by males and females are almost equal and remarkably lower than those reported in the literature. However, when the assessment includes minor/moderate levels of violence, such as pushing, the rates of violence perpetration by females are twice those of males and are consistent with those reported in the literature. Furthermore, different variables are associated with different levels of severity of violence perpetration. The results support approaches that emphasize the need to take the context of the violence into consideration, since all levels are not equal. The need to take the severity of violence into account in studies assessing dating violence is highlighted.
本研究评估了得克萨斯州里奥格兰德河谷地区以西班牙裔为主的高中生中身体暴力行为的发生率。进一步探讨了童年不良经历、遭受父母间暴力、依恋、情绪调节和冲动性与身体青少年约会暴力（TDV）行为严重程度的两个不同且相互排斥的类别之间的关系。参与者作为一个更大的匿名网络调查问卷的一部分完成了自我报告测量。创建了两个类别（即轻微/中度和严重）以辨别与男性和女性身体暴力行为不同严重程度相关的背景变量。来自四所不同高中的829名14至18岁青少年参与了该研究，其中407人报告在过去12个月内处于恋爱关系中。结果表明，仅考虑TDV最严重的项目时，男性和女性的暴力行为发生率几乎相等，且显著低于文献报道的发生率。然而，当评估包括轻微/中度暴力水平（如推搡）时，女性的暴力行为发生率是男性的两倍，且与文献报道一致。此外，不同变量与暴力行为的不同严重程度相关。结果支持强调需要考虑暴力背景的方法，因为所有级别并不相同。强调了在评估约会暴力的研究中需要考虑暴力严重程度。
