Exposure to Family Violence and Attachment Styles as Predictors of Dating Violence Perpetration Among Men and Women

Lee, Mary; Reese-Weber, Marla; Kahn, Jeffrey H.

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“…Adolescents who reported more attachment anxiety were more likely to report more experiences of TDV perpetration 10 months later [ 40 ]. In a study of undergraduate students between the ages of 18 and 25, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were not significant predictors of dating violence perpetration in men; however, in women, attachment anxiety, and not attachment avoidance, was predictive of dating violence perpetration [ 41 ]. In a third study in a predominately African American sample it was found that for those with a secure attachment pattern, their history of childhood maltreatment was not a significant risk factor of dating violence [ 42 ].…”

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Is All Dating Violence Equal? Gender and Severity Differences in Predictors of Perpetration

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Cantos

Chen

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Behavioral Sciences

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The present study assesses the extent of perpetration of physical violence in predominately Hispanic high school students in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, exposure to interparental violence, attachment, emotion regulation, and impulsivity on two distinct, mutually exclusive, categories of severity of physical teen dating violence (TDV) perpetration is further explored. Participants completed self-report measures as part of a larger, anonymous web-based questionnaire. Two categories (i.e., minor/moderate and severe) were created to discern the contextual variables associated with different levels of severity of physical violence perpetration by males and females. Eight-hundred and twenty-nine 14- to 18-year-old adolescents from four different high schools participated in the study, of whom 407 reported having been in a dating relationship in the last 12 months. The results demonstrate that when only the most severe item of TDV is taken into consideration, the rates of violence perpetration by males and females are almost equal and remarkably lower than those reported in the literature. However, when the assessment includes minor/moderate levels of violence, such as pushing, the rates of violence perpetration by females are twice those of males and are consistent with those reported in the literature. Furthermore, different variables are associated with different levels of severity of violence perpetration. The results support approaches that emphasize the need to take the context of the violence into consideration, since all levels are not equal. The need to take the severity of violence into account in studies assessing dating violence is highlighted.

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Is All Dating Violence Equal? Gender and Severity Differences in Predictors of Perpetration

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“…Exposure to family aggression was associated with perpetration of abuse among females with high avoidant attachment, while no association was found among those with low avoidance (Grych & Kinsfogel, 2010). Another study indicated that attachment anxiety mediated the association between parental maltreatment and dating perpetration for female university students (Lee, Reese-Weber, & Kahn, 2014). Since prior associations between childhood maltreatment and insecure attachment styles in late adolescence and adulthood have been noted in prior studies (Finzi et al, 2001; Gauthier, Stollak, Messé, & Aronoff, 1996), and there is some limited research indicating attachment insecurity may moderate the association between childhood abuse and adolescent dating violence, this study aimed to explore associations among childhood maltreatment, attachment styles, and dating violence perpetration and victimization in a high risk, community sample of late teens, and to identify the moderating role attachment style may play on the association of childhood maltreatment and later adolescent dating violence perpetration and victimization.…”

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The moderating role of attachment on the association between childhood maltreatment and adolescent dating violence

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Choi

Mayes

2018

Children and Youth Services Review

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Approximately twenty percent of female and ten percent of male adolescents report violence in their dating relationships and there is a significant association between dating violence in adolescence and later perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood. Identification of factors associated with dating violence can inform intervention and prevention efforts. This study was designed to examine the associations of early childhood maltreatment experience and involvement in adolescent dating violence. It also aimed to identify the moderating effect of insecure attachment styles on these associations. One hundred fifty adolescent who participated in a larger longitudinal study on prenatal drug exposure participated in this study. Participants completed self-report measures of childhood maltreatment at a standard follow-up visit between the ages of 15–19 years. Approximately 18 month later, they completed questionnaires on their attachment styles and level of dating violence perpetration and victimization. Hierarchical regression modeling revealed a significant main effect for childhood abuse but not insecure attachment on perpetration and victimization of dating violence. Avoidant attachment significantly moderated the relationship between childhood abuse exposure and dating violence: For adolescents who reported an avoidant attachment style, an increase in the level of experienced childhood maltreatment predicted significantly higher increases in victimization by dating violence, compared to those did not have avoidant attachment. Results suggest adolescents with child maltreatment history and avoidant attachment styles may be at higher risk for involvement in dating violence and support intervention efforts for fostering attachment relationship to attenuate the association between early exposures to maltreatment and involvement in dating violence later.

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“…College-age individuals and, in particular, students in the early years of college are at higher risk due to their absence from parents and their established support systems, as well as their younger age and normative use of alcohol. Furthermore, bidirectional violence is the most common pattern in college dating relationships (Lee, Reese-Weber, & Kahn, 2014), suggesting that men and women perpetrate and experience IPV (Kaukinen, Gover, & Hartman, 2012), leading to more frequent and intense conflicts between couples.…”

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Childhood Trauma, Trait Anxiety, and Anxious Attachment as Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence in College Students

McClure

Parmenter

2017

J Interpers Violence

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The current study investigates the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV), childhood trauma, trait anxiety, depression, and anxious attachment in college students. Ninety-three male and 161 female undergraduate students at Fairfield University, ranging in age from 17 to 23, with a mean age of 18.8 years, participated. Participants completed five self-report inventories: The Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS). IPV perpetration in college dating relationships was related to childhood emotional and physical abuse, emotional and physical neglect, and trait anxiety. IPV victimization in college dating relationships was related to childhood emotional and physical abuse, childhood emotional and physical neglect, and an anxious attachment style. IPV perpetration and victimization were also significantly correlated with one another. Subscale analyses suggest that childhood emotional abuse was related to being both the perpetrator and victim of verbal or emotional abuse in dating relationships. Childhood physical abuse, physical neglect, and emotional abuse were related to both perpetration and victimization of physical IPV. Threatening behavior perpetration in dating relationships was related to childhood emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, and physical neglect; however, being the victim of threatening behavior was only related to childhood emotional abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect, not childhood physical abuse. These results support the relationship between childhood trauma and dating violence in college students. They also support a role for anxiety in IPV, although trait anxiety was related to perpetration and an anxious attachment style was correlated with IPV victimization. In addition, they suggest that different experiences of childhood trauma may relate to different aspects of IPV in college dating relationships.

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Exposure to Family Violence and Attachment Styles as Predictors of Dating Violence Perpetration Among Men and Women

Cited by 50 publications

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Is All Dating Violence Equal? Gender and Severity Differences in Predictors of Perpetration

Is All Dating Violence Equal? Gender and Severity Differences in Predictors of Perpetration

The moderating role of attachment on the association between childhood maltreatment and adolescent dating violence

Childhood Trauma, Trait Anxiety, and Anxious Attachment as Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence in College Students

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