Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence as a Child: How Boys & Girls Model Their Parents’ Behaviors in Adolescence
Author: Henrietta Thomson
Date: October 29, 2018
Christine M.Forkeabc1Rachel K.MyersbcJoel A.FeinbcdMarinaCatallozziefgA. RussellLocalioaDouglas J.WiebeaJeane AnnGrisso
Abstract – Childhood witnesses of adult violence at home are at risk for future violence. It is unclear how gender of the child and adult perpetrator are related to adolescent relationship violence. We explore how childhood witnessing of same-gender, opposite-gender, and bidirectional violence perpetrated by adults is associated with adolescent relationship violence victimization only, perpetration only, and combined victimization/perpetration for male and female undergraduates. We gathered cross-sectional data from 907 undergraduates attending 67 randomly-selected classes at three distinct East-Coast colleges using pencil-and-paper surveys administered at the end of class time. Multiple imputation with chained equations was used to impute missing data. Multinomial regression models controlling for gender, age, race, school, and community violencepredicted adolescent outcomes for each witnessing exposure; relative risk ratios and average adjusted probabilities with 95% confidence intervals are presented. Adolescent relationship violence outcomes vary based on gender of the child witness and adult perpetrator. Witnessing adult males perpetrate is associated with higher perpetration for boys and higher combined victimization/perpetration for girls. Witnessing adult females perpetrate – either as the sole perpetrator or in a mutually violent relationship with an adult male – increases risk for combined victimization/perpetration for boys and girls during adolescence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213418303120
Child Abuse & Neglect – Volume 84, October 2018, Pages 241-252
Also Via SVRI – Sexual Violence Research Initiative
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