Lawrence Timothy I, Wojciechowski Thomas W
Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2025 Jun;40(11-12):2633-2653. doi: 10.1177/08862605241276002. Epub 2024 Sep 10.
Dating violence is often perpetrated among adolescents, which increases the efforts to better understand individual risk factors for preventive efforts. Although multiple forms (i.e., physical and psychological) often coexist, few studies have studied the chronicity and developmental classes of physical teen dating violence and examined whether subtypes of trait anger predict teen dating perpetration over time. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to investigate: (a) the developmental group-based patterns of physical teen dating violence; and (b) whether subtypes of trait anger expression predict association in these classes using the Bullying, Sexual, and Dating Violence Trajectories from Early to Late Adolescence in the Midwestern United States, 2007 to 2013 dataset. Group-based trajectory modeling results identified four classes of teen dating violence perpetration (e.g., Accelerating, Abstaining, Desisting, and High Chronic). Multinomial logistic regression results indicated that expressing anger outwardly was positively associated with Desisting and High Chronic patterns, but not Accelerating patterns. These results suggest that there are four classes of teen dating violence perpetration and underscore the effects of expression of trait anger as a risk factor of teen dating violence perpetration. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.
青少年约会暴力行为常常发生，这加大了我们为预防工作更好地了解个体风险因素的力度。虽然多种形式（如身体暴力和心理暴力）往往同时存在，但很少有研究探讨青少年身体约会暴力行为的持续性和发展类别，也未考察特质愤怒的亚型是否能预测随着时间推移青少年约会暴力行为的实施情况。因此，本研究的目的是调查：（a）基于发展群体的青少年身体约会暴力行为模式；（b）利用2007年至2013年美国中西部地区从青春期早期到晚期的欺凌、性暴力和约会暴力轨迹数据集，特质愤怒表达的亚型是否能预测这些类别中的关联。基于群体的轨迹模型结果确定了四类青少年约会暴力行为（如加速型、戒除型、停止型和高持续性型）。多项逻辑回归结果表明，向外表达愤怒与停止型和高持续性型模式呈正相关，但与加速型模式无关。这些结果表明存在四类青少年约会暴力行为，并强调了特质愤怒表达作为青少年约会暴力行为实施风险因素的影响。文中还讨论了实际意义和理论意义。
