Predicting Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Prev Med
• Personal Author:
  Latzman, Natasha E. ; Vivolo-Kantor, Alana M. ; Niolon, Phyllis Holditch ; Ghazarian, Sharon R.
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Exposure to adult intimate partner violence (IPV) places youth at risk for a range of outcomes, including perpetration of adolescent dating violence (ADV). However, there is variability in the effect of IPV exposure, as many youth who are exposed to IPV do not go on to exhibit problems. Thus, research is needed to examine contextual factors, such as parenting practices, to more fully explain heterogeneity in outcomes and better predict ADV perpetration. The current research draws from a multisite study to investigate the predictive power of IPV exposure and parenting practices on subsequent ADV perpetration.
  
  Methods
  
  Participants included 417 adolescents (48.7% female) drawn from middle schools in high-risk, urban communities. IPV exposure, two types of parenting practices (positive parenting/involvement and parental knowledge of their child’s dating), and five types of ADV perpetration (threatening behaviors, verbal/emotional abuse, relational abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse) were assessed at baseline (2012) and approximately 5 months later (2013) via adolescent report. Analyses (conducted in 2015) used a structural equation modeling approach.
  
  Results
  
  Structural models indicated that IPV exposure was positively related only to relational abuse at follow-up. Further, adolescents who reported parents having less knowledge of dating partners were more likely to report perpetrating two types of ADV (physical and verbal/emotional abuse) at follow-up. Analyses did not demonstrate any significant interaction effects.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Results fill a critical gap in understanding of important targets to prevent ADV in middle school and highlight the important role that parents may play in ADV prevention
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Article Courtship Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Intimate Partner Violence Male Models, Theoretical Parenting Urban Population

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• Source:
  Am J Prev Med. 49(3):476-482.
• Pubmed ID:
  26296446
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5839136
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U88 CE002050/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; CE002048/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; CE002052/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; U88 CE002054/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; U88 CE002048/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; U88 CE002052/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; CE002054/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; CE002050/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a2461933d07c3290555b7ba110d399991d9a80ebdb10844b8e1b942cef819362
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52380/cdc_52380_DS1.pdf
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