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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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Results for dating violence (u.s.)
2 results foundAuthor: Giordano, Peggy C. Title: Adolescent Dating Violence: The Influence of Friendships and School Context Summary: Prior research has examined parental and peer influences on adolescent dating violence, but fewer studies have explored the broader social contexts of adolescent life. The present research examines the effect of variations in school context on IPV perpetration, while taking into account parental, peer and demographic factors. Results indicate that net of parents’ and friends’ use of violence, the normative climate of schools, specifically school-level partner violence, is a significant predictor of respondents’ own IPV. Norms about dating also contributed indirectly to odds of experiencing IPV. However, a more general measure of school-level use of violence toward friends is not strongly related to variations in IPV, suggesting the need to focus on domain-specific influences. Details: Bowling Green, Ohio: Department of Sociology and Center for Family and Demographic Research Bowling Green State University, 2013. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: 2013 Working Paper Series: Accessed May 15, 2013 at: http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/cfdr/file130328.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/cfdr/file130328.pdf Shelf Number: 128734 Keywords: Dating Violence (U.S.)Intimate Partner ViolencePeer Influences |
Author: Copp, Jennifer E. Title: Stay/Leave Decision-Making in Non-Violent and Violent Dating Relationships Summary: Researchers have focused on intimate partner violence (IPV) as a serious social problem and a major public health concern. In addition to exploring the etiology of intimate violence, research has examined factors associated with decisions to stay with or to end violent unions. However, most studies examining stay/leave decision-making have focused on married and cohabiting couples, where the presence of children and economic concerns complicate the decision to leave. Yet recent findings from a nationally representative sample indicated that 40% of respondents experienced IPV by young adulthood (Halpern, Spriggs, Martin, & Kupper, 2009). Given IPV prevalence estimates among young adults, the majority of whom are not married (e.g., CDC, 2007; Halpern et al., 2009; Halpern, Oslak, Young, Martin, & Kupper, 2001) scholars have argued that dating violence constitutes an equally important concern (Rhatigan & Street, 2005). Indeed, nationally representative data indicated that young adults are at the greatest risk of intimate partner victimization (Catalano, 2006; Berger, Wildsmith, Manlove, & Steward-Streng, 2012). Currently, little is known about factors that are associated with leaving a violent dating relationship during this period in the life course. It is important to examine such factors more systematically, as one of the most efficient methods for intervening may be to encourage young people to move on from relationships characterized by violence. However, prevention messages are likely to be more successful to the degree that they connect on some level to the ‘naturally-occurring’ dynamics that underlie decisions about remaining with or leaving a given partner. Designing effective prevention and intervention efforts targeting young adults should be a high priority given the high levels of prevalence of IPV during this time, and because this can potentially interrupt such negative relationship dynamics before they become firmly entrenched, chronic patterns. The current study draws on a symbolic interactionist (SI) version of exchange theory, which emphasizes that decisions about the rewards and costs of staying in a relationship inevitably includes subjective assessments. The current study focused on intimate relationship dynamics associated with emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2004), and examined decision processes associated with breaking up or remaining with a focal partner. As the sample of young women and men included respondents who reported violence as well as those who did not, we explored the degree to which violence itself is significantly associated with the likelihood of breaking up, once other demographic and relationship factors were taken into account. We also determined whether other relationship factors moderated the relationship between violence and the odds of relationship termination. In addition to focusing on positive and negative relationship dynamics, the current study contributed beyond prior work in this area by examining whether levels of social support and views of the broader network (i.e., family members and friends’ views about the romantic partner) were associated with these decision-making processes. Details: Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University The Center for Family and Demographic Research, 2013. 25p. Source: Internet Resource: 2013 Working Paper Series: Accessed July 24, 2013 at: http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/cfdr/file133909.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/cfdr/file133909.pdf Shelf Number: 129499 Keywords: Dating Violence (U.S.)Intimate Partner Violence |