University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior & Health Education, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
University of Michigan, School of Public Health, 3702 SPH I, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2022 Jan;51(1):45-61. doi: 10.1007/s10964-021-01517-w. Epub 2021 Oct 13.
Electronic dating violence is a form of violence perpetrated through electronics between dating partners and is associated with worse mental health, greater risk of substance use, and increased risk of in-person forms of dating violence. Though prevalent and seeming to increase in occurrence across adolescence, little is known about trajectories of electronic dating violence throughout adolescence and both risk and protective factors predicting a given trajectory. Latent growth models were used to evaluate change over time in three specific domains of electronic dating violence: harassment, coercion, and monitoring. Data are drawn from two cohorts who were surveyed annually for four years (2013-2017) from age 12 to 15 (n = 543; 48.3% female) and 15 to 18 (n = 597, 46.6% female), respectively. For all three domains of electronic dating violence, a quadratic model fit best. In general, electronic dating violence increased from early adolescence until a peak around age 16 or 17, and then leveled off. Threat-based adverse childhood experiences (i.e., exposure to physical child abuse, parental intimate partner violence, etc.) and earlier engagement in dating behaviors increased long-term risk for both age cohorts. Protective factors such as parental monitoring decreased risk but seemed to only have protective influence at developmentally-specific periods (i.e., during the developmental period of early adolescence). A better understanding of the risk and protective factors that affect the increase of electronic dating violence during adolescence is necessary to develop effective age-appropriate prevention and intervention strategies for youth.
电子约会暴力是一种在约会伴侣之间通过电子手段实施的暴力行为，与更严重的心理健康问题、更大的物质使用风险以及更高的面对面约会暴力风险有关。尽管这种行为在青少年中普遍存在且似乎有所增加，但对于青少年时期电子约会暴力的轨迹以及预测特定轨迹的风险和保护因素知之甚少。潜增长模型用于评估电子约会暴力的三个特定领域（骚扰、胁迫和监控）随时间的变化。数据来自两个队列，他们在四年（2013-2017 年）中每年接受一次调查，年龄从 12 岁到 15 岁（n=543；48.3%为女性）和 15 岁到 18 岁（n=597，46.6%为女性）。对于电子约会暴力的所有三个领域，二次模型拟合最好。总的来说，电子约会暴力从青少年早期增加到 16 岁或 17 岁左右的高峰，然后趋于平稳。基于威胁的不良儿童经历（即，遭受身体虐待、父母亲密伴侣暴力等）和更早参与约会行为增加了两个年龄队列的长期风险。保护因素，如父母监督，可以降低风险，但似乎只在特定的发展时期（即青少年早期的发展时期）具有保护作用。为了制定针对青年的有效、适合年龄的预防和干预策略，有必要更好地了解影响青少年时期电子约会暴力增加的风险和保护因素。
