Bullying as a Longitudinal Predictor of Adolescent Dating Violence

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• Alternative Title:
  J Adolesc Health
• Personal Author:
  Foshee, Vangie A. ; Reyes, Heath Luz McNaughton ; Vivolo-Kantor, Alana M. ; Basile, Kathleen C. ; Chang, Ling-Yin ; Faris, Robert ; Ennett, Susan T.
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  One suggested approach to preventing adolescent dating violence is to prevent behavioral precursors to dating violence, such as bullying. However, no longitudinal study has examined bullying as a behavioral precursor to dating violence. In this study, longitudinal data were used to examine (1) whether direct and indirect bullying perpetration in the sixth grade predicted the onset of physical dating violence perpetration by the eighth grade and (2) whether the associations varied by sex and race/ethnicity of the adolescent.
  
  Methods
  
  Data were collected in school from sixth graders in three primarily rural counties and then again when students were in the eighth grade. Analyses were conducted with 1,154 adolescents who had not perpetrated dating violence at the sixth-grade assessment. The sample was 47% male, 29% black, and 10% of another race/ethnicity than black or white.
  
  Results
  
  Direct bullying, defined as hitting, slapping, or picking on another kid in the sixth grade, predicted the onset of physical dating violence perpetration by the eighth grade, controlling for indirect bullying and potential confounders. Although indirect bullying, defined as spreading false rumors and excluding students from friendship groups, was associated with the onset of physical dating violence perpetration in bivariate analyses, it did not predict the onset of physical dating violence when controlling for direct bullying. None of the associations examined varied by sex or race/ethnicity of the adolescents.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Our findings suggest that efforts targeted at preventing direct bullying may also prevent the onset of physical dating violence.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Adolescent Dating Abuse Bullying Crime Victims Dating Violence Dating Violence Prevention Female Humans Interpersonal Relations Longitudinal Studies Male North Carolina Rural Population Sexual Behavior Violence

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• Source:
  J Adolesc Health. 55(3):439-444
• Pubmed ID:
  24768162
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4702490
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 DA013459/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE423114/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 DA 13459/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  55
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9cecfebe6a8f014fa7cd89c8de135483f048e99cf0b46f1966bb91a7f6b04b57
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/37348/cdc_37348_DS1.pdf
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