Adolescent Relationship Violence and Acculturation among NYC Latinos

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• Alternative Title:
  Matern Child Health J
• Personal Author:
  DuPont-Reyes, Melissa ; Fry, Deborah ; Rickert, Vaughn ; Davidson, Leslie L.
• Description:
  OBJECTIVES ; Acculturation has been shown to positively and negatively affect Latino health. Little research investigates the overlap between acculturation and the different types of relationship violence among Latino youth and most research in this area predominantly involves Mexican-American samples. The current study examined associations between indices of acculturation (language use at home, chosen survey language, and nativity) and relationship physical violence and sexual coercion, both received and delivered, among predominantly Dominican and Puerto Rican adolescents from New York City. ; METHODS ; From 2006-2007, 1,454 adolescents aged 13-21 years in New York City completed an anonymous survey that included the Conflict in Adolescent Relationships Inventory which estimates experiences of physical violence and sexual coercion, both received and delivered, in the previous year. This analysis includes bivariate and multivariate methods to test the associations between language use at home, chosen survey language, and nativity with the different types of relationship violence. ; RESULTS ; Among females, there is a significant association between language use at home and overall level of acculturation with delivering and receiving relationship physical violence; however, we did not find this association in delivering and receiving relationship sexual coercion. We found no association between acculturation and any type of relationship violence among males. ; CONCLUSIONS ; Among Latina females, language spoken at home is an indicator of other protective factors of physical relationship violence. Future research in this area should explore the potential protective factors surrounding relationship violence among Latina females of various subgroups using comprehensive measures of acculturation, household composition and family engagement.
• Subjects:
  • Acculturation
  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Coercion
  • Dominican Republic
  • Female
  • Hispanic or Latino
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mexican Americans
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• Keywords:
  • Relationship violence
  • dating violence
  • acculturation
  • Latinos
  • youth
  • adolescents
  • language use
• Source:
  Matern Child Health J. 19(7):1543-1552
• Pubmed ID:
  25452217
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4452455
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U49CE000731/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE002096/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U49 CE000731/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T32 MH013043/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 5-T32-MH-13043/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33006/cdc_33006_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 241.91 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3bc2431663a0494e782485b4289e616bc8c7675c899178d639a2a868eaad7111