Sánchez Paulina A, Varela Jorge J, Ceric Francisco, Cruz Ana Rita
Faculty of Psychology, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal.
Aggress Behav. 2025 Jan;51(1):e70012. doi: 10.1002/ab.70012.
Adolescent dating violence (ADV) research has neglected the environmental factors at play in contexts of perpetration. This study, conducted in Chile, investigated the socio-cognitive processes inherent to the relationship between child abuse and ADV perpetration by examining the association between child abuse, impulsivity, reactive aggression, proactive aggression, attitudes that rationalize or justify ADV, and actual ADV perpetration. Data were collected from 655 adolescents using self-reported measures of child abuse, impulsivity, reactive and proactive aggression, attitudes justifying ADV, and ADV perpetration using structural equation modeling. Having experienced child abuse predicted higher levels of impulsivity, which in turn predicted higher levels of aggressive traits, both for reactive and proactive aggression. Proactive aggression predicted higher levels of ADV perpetration, whereas reactive aggression did not. While we did not find that child abuse predicted a greater propensity for ADV, nor that such a disposition indicated a higher level of proactive aggression by influencing ADV perpetration, we did find that a positive attitude toward ADV predicted a higher frequency of ADV perpetration. Our results suggest that the socio-cognitive process underlying ADV involves automatic and complex processes stemming from child abuse, thus linking environmental and individual factors.
青少年约会暴力（ADV）研究忽视了暴力行为发生背景中起作用的环境因素。这项在智利开展的研究，通过考察儿童期受虐、冲动性、反应性攻击、主动性攻击、使ADV合理化或正当化的态度以及实际的ADV实施行为之间的关联，探究了儿童期受虐与ADV实施行为关系中固有的社会认知过程。使用儿童期受虐、冲动性、反应性和主动性攻击、为ADV辩护的态度以及ADV实施行为的自我报告测量方法，从655名青少年中收集数据，并采用结构方程模型进行分析。经历过儿童期受虐预示着更高水平的冲动性，而冲动性反过来又预示着更高水平的攻击特质，包括反应性攻击和主动性攻击。主动性攻击预示着更高水平的ADV实施行为，而反应性攻击则不然。虽然我们没有发现儿童期受虐预示着更高的ADV倾向，也没有发现这种倾向通过影响ADV实施行为表明更高水平的主动性攻击，但我们确实发现对ADV持积极态度预示着更高频率的ADV实施行为。我们的研究结果表明，ADV背后的社会认知过程涉及源于儿童期受虐的自动且复杂的过程，从而将环境因素和个体因素联系起来。
