University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
J Res Adolesc. 2024 Dec;34(4):1287-1299. doi: 10.1111/jora.12987. Epub 2024 May 30.
Witnessing inter-parental conflict is associated with dating violence perpetration in late adolescence and adulthood. This relationship may be moderated by adolescents' empathy, with more empathic youth viewing their parents' conflict behavior as less acceptable, and thus refraining from dating violence perpetration. This study sought to determine if empathy buffers the effects of inter-parental conflict in early adolescence on expected dating violence perpetration in early adolescence and actual dating violence perpetration in late adolescence and adulthood. Moreover, this study tested if expected dating violence perpetration in early adolescence and dating violence perpetration in late adolescence mediate the effects of inter-parental conflict and empathy on dating violence perpetration in adulthood. Sex differences in these relationships were also examined. The sample included 412 adolescents (52% male, 73% Black, 25% White, 2% Other) who participated at three time points between 2006 and 2022 (T1-T3, Mean age = 13, 18, 28 years). Results indicated that higher inter-parental conflict and lower empathy were associated with higher expected dating violence perpetration at T1 in both males and females. Inter-parental conflict at T1 predicted higher dating violence perpetration at T3 through expected dating violence perpetration at T1 and dating violence perpetration at T2. Empathy at T1 predicted lower dating violence perpetration at T3 directly and also indirectly through lower expected dating violence at T1 and lower dating violence perpetration at T2 in both sexes. There were no interaction effects of inter-parental conflict and empathy on expected or actual dating violence perpetration at any age.
目睹父母间的冲突与青少年晚期和成年期的约会暴力行为有关。这种关系可能受到青少年同理心的调节，同理心更强的青少年认为父母的冲突行为更不可接受，因此避免实施约会暴力行为。本研究旨在确定同理心是否缓冲了青少年早期父母间冲突对青少年早期预期约会暴力行为以及青少年晚期和成年期实际约会暴力行为的影响。此外，本研究还测试了青少年早期的预期约会暴力行为和青少年晚期的约会暴力行为是否在父母间冲突和同理心对成年期约会暴力行为的影响中起中介作用。还检查了这些关系中的性别差异。该样本包括 412 名青少年（52%为男性，73%为黑人，25%为白人，2%为其他），他们在 2006 年至 2022 年期间参加了三个时间点的研究（T1-T3，平均年龄为 13 岁、18 岁和 28 岁）。结果表明，在男性和女性中，父母间冲突较高和同理心较低与青少年早期更高的预期约会暴力行为有关。T1 的父母间冲突通过 T1 的预期约会暴力行为和 T2 的约会暴力行为预测 T3 的更高约会暴力行为。T1 的同理心直接预测 T3 的更低约会暴力行为，也通过 T1 的较低预期约会暴力行为和 T2 的较低约会暴力行为在两性中间接预测 T3 的更低约会暴力行为。在任何年龄，父母间冲突和同理心都没有对预期或实际约会暴力行为产生交互作用。
