Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Department of Epidemiology & Social Science, NHC Key Lab. of Reproductive Regulation (Shanghai Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Technologies), Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
J Adolesc Health. 2022 Nov;71(5):616-627. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.06.011. Epub 2022 Aug 9.
Violence perpetration is common among adolescents worldwide but existing research largely focuses on boys, older adolescents, and partner violence. Our study sought to identify individual, family, and neighborhood/peer factors associated with violence perpetration in a multinational sample of male and female young adolescents.
We used cross-sectional data from 5,762 adolescents in four sites in the Global Early Adolescent Study: Flanders, Belgium; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shanghai, China; and Semarang, Indonesia. Adolescents resided in high-poverty urban areas and were aged 10 to 14 years. Logistic regression examined pooled and stratified associations between independent variables with peer violence perpetration in the past six months. Factors included media viewing habits, gender norms, victimization, agency/empowerment, adversity, depression, familial relationships, neighborhood cohesion, and peer behaviors.
Restricted-model analyses found increased odds of violence perpetration associated with high media consumption, pornography viewing, violence or bullying victimization, having drank alcohol, depressive symptoms, adverse childhood experiences, greater behavioral control, greater decision-making, feeling unsafe in the neighborhood/school, peer alcohol/tobacco use, and witnessing peers start a fight. Decreased odds of violence perpetration were associated with more egalitarian views on two gender norms scales, closer parental relationships, neighbors looking out for one another, and greater availability of adult help.
Among young adolescents, increased odds of violence perpetration were related to a perceived lack of safety and risky peer behaviors. Parental and neighborhood connections were often associated with decreased perpetration. Further research examining the interplay of such factors among young adolescents is needed to inform effective intervention and policy.
暴力行为在全球青少年中很常见，但现有研究主要集中在男孩、年龄较大的青少年和伴侣暴力上。我们的研究旨在确定个体、家庭和邻里/同伴因素与跨国男性和女性青少年暴力行为的关系。
我们使用了来自全球早期青少年研究的四个地点（比利时的弗拉芒、刚果民主共和国的金沙萨、中国的上海和印度尼西亚的三宝垄）的 5762 名青少年的横断面数据。青少年居住在高贫困城市地区，年龄在 10 至 14 岁之间。逻辑回归分析了过去六个月中同伴暴力行为与独立变量之间的总体和分层关联。这些因素包括媒体观看习惯、性别规范、受害、代理/赋权、逆境、抑郁、家庭关系、邻里凝聚力和同伴行为。
限制模型分析发现，与高媒体消费、色情观看、暴力或欺凌受害、饮酒、抑郁症状、不良童年经历、更大的行为控制、更大的决策能力、感到邻里/学校不安全、同伴饮酒/吸烟以及目睹同伴打架有关的暴力行为发生的可能性增加。与两种性别规范量表上更平等的观点、更亲密的父母关系、邻里相互照顾以及更多成人帮助有关的暴力行为发生的可能性降低。
在青少年中，暴力行为发生的可能性增加与安全感降低和危险的同伴行为有关。父母和邻里的联系往往与减少暴力行为有关。需要进一步研究这些因素在青少年中的相互作用，以为有效的干预和政策提供信息。
