Theory and teen dating violence victimization: Considering adolescent development

Exner‐Cortens, Deinera

doi:10.1016/j.dr.2014.03.001

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“…Peer attitudes and behaviors are potent predictors of substance use, with effects varying by gender, race/ethnicity, and type of substance (Mason, Mennis, Linker, Bares, & Zaharakis, 2014). In contrast, evidence supports that positive peer relations are protective against substance use in adolescents through creating and maintaining healthy, prosocial peer networks (Exner-Cortens, 2014; Mrug & McCray, 2013). Recent research has supported the clinical effectiveness of targeting peer network characteristics with brief intervention with adolescents (Chung, Sealy, Abraham, Ruglovsky, Schall, & Maisto, 2015).…”

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Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users

Mason

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Campbell

et al. 2015

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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Close peer networks can affect adolescents’ health behaviors by altering their social environments, and thus their risk for and protection against substance use involvement. We tested a 20 minute intervention named Peer Network Counseling that integrates Motivational Interviewing and peer network strategies with 119 urban adolescents who reported occasional or problem substance use. Adolescents presenting at primary care clinic were randomized to intervention or control conditions and followed for 6 months. Mixed-effect latent growth models were used to evaluate intervention effects on trajectories of alcohol and marijuana use, offers to use substances, and moderation models to test for interactions between intervention condition and peer network characteristics. A significant intervention effect was found for boys for offers to use alcohol from friends (p<.05), along with a trend significant effect for alcohol use (p<.08). Intervention was more effective in reducing marijuana use, vs. control, for participants with more peer social support (p<.001) and with more peer encouragement for prosocial behavior (school, clubs, sports, religious activities); however, intervention did not affect these network characteristics. Results provide support to continue this line of research to test brief interventions that activate protective peer network characteristics among at-risk adolescents, while also raising some interesting gender-based intervention questions for future research.

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Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users

Mason

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Campbell

et al. 2015

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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“…Due to the heightened importance of romantic relationships in adolescence, TDA may be a particularly potent form of peer victimization (Exner-Cortens, 2014). Prior research has concluded that students victimized by their peers experience a decline in school belonging and engagement that leads to lower grades .…”

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“…pressuring a partner to participate in substance use (Lavoie, Robitaille, & Hébert, 2000;Niolon et al, 2015). This type of pressure within a relationship can also function as peer pressure in a situation where a youth wants to please their partner or maintain a social status or also a mechanism for placing a partner in a more vulnerable position (Dumas, Ellis, & Wolfe, 2012;Exner-Cortens, 2014;.…”

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“…On one hand, adolescents who date may benefit from higher self-esteem and psychosocial well-being (Exner-Cortens, 2014;Salerno et al, 2014). On the other hand, dating, especially the early onset of dating, has been linked to higher risk behaviors and poorer academic adjustment .…”

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“…Due to the heightened importance of romantic relationships in adolescence, TDA may be a particularly potent form of peer victimization (Exner-Cortens, 2014). …”

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Three Social Contexts of Bullying in Adolescence: Bystanders, Teachers, and Dating Partners

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Dissertation AbstractThere is persistent, nationwide concern about bullying in schools. Current conceptualizations of bullying primarily reflect research and interventions with children, and anti-bullying efforts that are effective with children appear to be much less effective with adolescents, so there is a need to investigate bullying experiences in adolescence.Each of the three papers in this dissertation investigates bullying in a different social context: (1) peer bystander reactions to bullying, (2) bullying by teachers, and (3) bullying within dating relationships. All three studies drew upon data from the statewide administration of school climate surveys in Virginia secondary schools.The first paper linked student attitudes toward peer aggression with bystander reactions to bullying. Newer bully prevention programs focus on encouraging students to be upstanders by teaching students that bullying is a group problem and to practice positive interventions by standing up to bullies. Consequently, it is important to understand beliefs and attitudes towards aggression that are associated with bystander behaviors that may encourage or discourage bullying. This study hypothesized that students who endorsed attitudes that aggression leads to more popularity and is acceptable would be more likely to reinforce bullying and less likely to stand up to stop it. In a sample of 28,765 middle school students we asked about their responses to recent bullying and classified three group of bystanders: upstanders (48%), reinforcers (7%), and passive bystanders (45%). Multi-level logistic regressions indicated that even though the prevalence of reinforcing behavior was generally low, students with higher levels of aggressive attitudes were more likely to encourage bullying. Conversely, higher aggressive attitudes made students less likely to be upstanders. A school-level analysis found that schools where aggressive attitudes are more widely shared had lower numbers of upstanders. These findings suggest that school-based interventions that target student beliefs and norms about aggression may be critical to the effectiveness of anti-bullying programs.The second study compared the prevalence and school adjustment of students bullied by teachers versus peers. Assessing teacher-student interactions is especially important in adolescence because it is a period when students begin to have relationships with a greater number of teachers and relate to them in a more independent and assertive manner. Notably, negative teacher-student interactions in secondary school contribute to poorer school adjustment. In contrast to bullying by peers, bullying by teachers has received little attention and is rarely included in the measurement of bullying. In a sample of 56,508 middle school students, a smaller proportion of students reported bullying by teachers (4%) versus bullying by peers (11%). In comparison to students who reported no bullying, students bullied by teachers were significantly more likely to report lower school engagement and...

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Social networks and violence victimization and perpetration among youth: A longitudinal analysis

Mullet,

Waterman,

Edwards

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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Interpersonal violence (IV) is a serious concern for adolescents in the United States that has devastating impacts for individuals and communities. Given the increased importance placed on friendships during adolescence, the purpose of the current study was to examine the extent to which IV experiences cluster within youths' friendship networks. Participants were students (N = 1303) in grades 7th to 10th who completed surveys at the beginning and end of an academic year. Results showed that friends' average perpetration (i.e., the percentage of the friends they nominated who perpetrated IV) was strongly associated with likelihood of individual perpetration at baseline but not at the follow‐up. For victimization, friends' average report of victimization (i.e., the percentage of the friends they nominated who were victimized) was associated with higher likelihood reporting of victimization (at both baseline and follow‐up). Although future research is needed to understand explanatory mechanisms underlying these findings, it is possible that the effectiveness of prevention initiatives may be enhanced by incorporating peer group information.

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Theory and teen dating violence victimization: Considering adolescent development

Cited by 51 publications

References 74 publications

Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users

Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users

Three Social Contexts of Bullying in Adolescence: Bystanders, Teachers, and Dating Partners

Social networks and violence victimization and perpetration among youth: A longitudinal analysis

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