NCJ Number
251850
Journal
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Volume: 26) Issue: 4 Dated: October 2016 Pages: 293-303
Date Published
October 2016
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This study tested the hypothesis that a positive relationship between dating violence in early adulthood and later adulthood intimate partner violence (IPV) and that support and attachment would provide buffering and direct protection for this relationship.
Abstract
Previous literature has found continuity for intimate partner violence, but little research has explored the continuity between dating violence and adult intimate partner violence (IPV) or whether protective factors may attenuate this relationship. The current study used data from the Rochester Youth Development Study to explore these issues through negative binomial regression. The study determined that dating violence was statistically significantly related to an increase in adult IPV. Family support, parental reports of attachment to the subject, peer support, and parenting-related social support were all protective factors that provided a direct effect for those respondents perpetrating dating violence. None of the protective factors provided buffering protection between dating violence and adult IPV. These findings thus confirm significant continuity between dating violence and IPV and that support from peers and family, parenting related support, and parental reports of attachment protect an individual from continuing to engage in intimate partner violence throughout adulthood. Bolstering these supportive relationships may help provide points of intervention to interrupt the link between early dating violence and later adulthood IPV. (Publisher abstract modified)