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Citation |
Reyes HLM, Foshee VA, Markiewitz N, Chen MS, Ennett ST. Prev. Sci. 2018; 19(8): 997-1007. |
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Affiliation |
Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 29975-7440, USA. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group) |
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29629508 |
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Abstract |
Social ecological and developmental system perspectives suggest that interactions among factors within and across multiple contexts (e.g., neighborhood, peer, family) must be considered in explaining dating violence perpetration. Yet, to date, most extant research on dating violence has focused on individual, rather than contextual predictors, and used variable-centered approaches that fail to capture the configurations of factors that may jointly explain involvement in dating violence. The current study used a person-centered approach, latent profile analysis, to identify key configurations (or profiles) of contextual risk and protective factors for dating violence perpetration across the neighborhood, school, friend and family contexts. We then examine the longitudinal associations between these contextual risk profiles, assessed during middle school, and trajectories of psychological and physical dating violence perpetration across grades 8 through 12. Five contextual risk profiles were identified: school, neighborhood, and family risk; school and family risk; school and friend risk; school and neighborhood risk; and low risk. The highest levels of psychological and physical perpetration across grades 8 through 12 were among adolescents in the profile characterized by high levels of school, neighborhood, and family risk. Language: en |
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Keywords |
Adolescents; Contextual risk; Dating violence; Developmental trajectory; Latent profile analysis |