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. 2009 Sep 1;19(3):380-400.
doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00593.x. Epub 2009 Aug 17.

The Development of Four Types of Adolescent Dating Abuse and Selected Demographic Correlates

Vangie A Foshee  1 , Thad Benefield  1 , Chirayath Suchindran  1 , Susan T Ennett  1 , Karl E Bauman  1 , Katherine J Karriker-Jaffe  1 , Heathe Luz McNaughton Reyes  1 , Jasmine Mathias  1
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The Development of Four Types of Adolescent Dating Abuse and Selected Demographic Correlates

Vangie A Foshee et al. J Res Adolesc. .

Abstract

This study determined the shape of trajectories from ages 13 to 19 of four types of dating abuse perpetration and examined whether the demographic characteristics of sex, minority status, socioeconomic status, and family structure systematically explained variation in the trajectories. The data are from 5 waves of data collected from 973 adolescents participating in the control group of a randomized trial. The mean trajectory for psychological dating abuse was positive linear, but the mean trajectories were curvilinear for moderate physical, severe physical, and sexual dating abuse. At all ages, boys reported more severe physical and sexual dating abuse than girls, minorities reported more moderate and severe physical dating abuse than whites, adolescents in single-parent-households reported more psychological and severe physical dating abuse than those in two-parent-households, and parental education was negatively associated with psychological and moderate physical dating abuse perpetration. The findings have implications for future research and for practice.

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Trajectories of dating abuse perpetration. Psychological abuse perpetration (top left) was linear, and moderate physical (top right), severe physical (bottom left) and sexual abuse perpetration (bottom right) were quadratic.
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