Community Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Community Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
J Adolesc Health. 2022 Dec;71(6):705-712. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.06.027. Epub 2022 Sep 7.
A quarter of women and nearly 1 in 10 men in the United States have reported experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) that had lasting negative impacts at least once during their lifetime. To prevent IPV over the lifecourse, adolescence has been identified as an ideal period for healthy relationship education that addresses the various IPV risk factors. One of those risk factors is believing in traditional gender roles, but the behavioral aspect of gender performance has been understudied. This study explores the relationship between adolescent gender performance and adult IPV perpetration and victimization/survival.
We used logistic regression to estimate associations of adolescent gender performance and adult IPV perpetration and victimization/survival in a sample of 2,197 males and 2,587 females from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) between 1994 and 2008.
Male adolescent gender performance was associated with increased adult IPV perpetration (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.11; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05-1.18 per 10% increase in gender performance) and victimization/survival (AOR = 1.07; 95% CI, 1.03-1.11 per 10% increase in gender performance). Female adolescent gender performance was not associated with adult IPV perpetration or victimization/survival.
The more similarly adolescent males behave to their adolescent male peers, the more likely they are to perpetrate and experience IPV in adulthood. This study supports the implementation of gender transformative education during adolescence and the specific need to address how the behaviors associated with male gender performance are risk factors for adult IPV.
在美国，有四分之一的女性和近十分之一的男性报告称，在一生中至少曾经历过一次对他们产生持久负面影响的亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）。为了在整个生命周期中预防 IPV，青春期已被确定为进行健康关系教育的理想时期，该教育涉及各种 IPV 风险因素。这些风险因素之一是相信传统的性别角色，但性别表现的行为方面尚未得到充分研究。本研究探讨了青少年性别表现与成年后 IPV 实施者和受害者/幸存者之间的关系。
我们使用逻辑回归来估计青少年性别表现与成年后 IPV 实施者和受害者/幸存者之间的关联，这是在 1994 年至 2008 年期间来自全国青少年到成人健康纵向研究（Add Health）的 2197 名男性和 2587 名女性样本中进行的。
男性青少年性别表现与成年后 IPV 实施者（调整后的优势比 [AOR] 为 1.11；95%置信区间 [CI] 为 1.05-1.18，每增加 10%的性别表现）和受害者/幸存者（AOR 为 1.07；95%CI，每增加 10%的性别表现）相关。女性青少年性别表现与成年后 IPV 实施者或受害者/幸存者无关。
青少年男性的行为与他们的青少年男性同伴越相似，他们在成年后实施和经历 IPV 的可能性就越大。这项研究支持在青春期实施性别转换教育，以及特别需要解决与男性性别表现相关的行为如何成为成年后 IPV 的风险因素。
