Dating Violence Victimization and Alcohol Problems: An Examination of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis for Perceived Support

Partner Abuse ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Shorey ◽  
Deborah L. Rhatigan ◽  
Paula J. Fite ◽  
Gregory L. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Prevention Programming ◽  
Stress Buffering ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
Buffering Hypothesis ◽  
The Relationship

Recent evidence suggests that victims of dating violence consume alcohol at greater rates than their nonvictimized peers, placing them at risk for the negative consequences produced by alcohol use. Thus, research that examines factors that protect victims from consuming alcohol is needed. Toward this end, the present study sought to examine whether perceived support served as a stress-buffering (moderating) variable on the relationship between dating violence victimization and alcohol problems among a sample of currently dating college students (N = 440). Partial support was found for the stress-buffering effect of perceived support, but this varied depending on the type of victimization examined. Implications of these findings for victim interventions and dating violence prevention programming are discussed.

Drinking Motives as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Dating Violence Victimization and Alcohol Problems

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen E. Haynes ◽  
Catherine V. Strauss ◽  
Gregory L. Stuart ◽  
Ryan C. Shorey
Keyword(s):  
Dating Violence ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Psychological Aggression ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Social Conformity ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

The present study sought to examine whether drinking motives (i.e., coping, social, conformity, and enhancement) moderated the relationship between physical, sexual, and psychological dating violence victimization and alcohol-related problems in a sample of drinking college women ( N = 177). Results demonstrated that coping and social drinking motives moderated the relationship between sexual victimization and alcohol problems; conformity, social, and enhancement drinking motives moderated the relationship between alcohol-related problems and physical victimization; no significant findings were evident for psychological aggression victimization. Our results partially support the self-medication model of alcohol use, and this may be particularly relevant to sexual victimization.

scholarly journals Relations among Romantic Myths, Offline Dating Violence Victimization and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization in Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-Jesús Cava ◽  
Sofía Buelga ◽  
Laura Carrascosa ◽  
Jessica Ortega-Barón
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cyber Aggression ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
Explained Variance ◽  
Violence Prevention Programs ◽  
Dating Relationship

Cyber dating violence is an increasing problem with serious negative consequences for adolescents. Further knowledge about related variables is necessary to develop preventive strategies. The aim of this study was to analyze the correlations among cyber dating violence victimization (cyber-control and cyber-aggression), offline dating violence victimization (physical, verbal–emotional, and relational) and adolescents’ beliefs in myths of romantic love; and to examine possible differences in cyber-control victimization, cyber-aggression victimization and offline dating violence victimization (relational, physical and verbal–emotional) according to adolescents’ levels of belief (low vs. high) in myths of romantic love. The role of offline dating violence victimization (physical, verbal–emotional and relational) and romantic myths as predictor variables of cyber-control and cyber-aggression victimization was also explored. All these analyses were carried out separately with boys and girls. Of an initial sample of 919 adolescents, those who have had a dating relationship in the past year (492 adolescents, M = 15.10, SD = 1.59) were included. The regression analyses revealed that offline dating violence victimization and romantic myths were significant predictors of cyber-control and cyber-aggression victimization for both boys and girls, but explained variance was higher for girls. Verbal–emotional offline dating violence victimization was the main predictor of cyber-control victimization, and physical and relational offline dating violence victimizations were the main predictors of cyber-aggression victimization. These results can be useful for developing more effective offline and cyber dating violence prevention programs.

The Effects of Gender Violence/Harassment Prevention Programming in Middle Schools: A Randomized Experimental Evaluation

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Taylor ◽  
Nan Stein ◽  
Frances Burden
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Treatment Control ◽  
Prevention Programming ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Law And Justice

In this experiment, 123 sixth and seventh grade classrooms from Cleveland area schools were randomly assigned to one of two five-session curricula addressing gender violence/sexual harassment (GV/SH) or to a no-treatment control. Three-student surveys were administered. Students in the law and justice curricula, compared to the control group, had significantly improved outcomes in awareness of their abusive behaviors, attitudes toward GV/SH and personal space, and knowledge. Students in the interaction curricula experienced lower rates of victimization, increased awareness of abusive behaviors, and improved attitudes toward personal space. Neither curricula affected perpetration or victimization of sexual harassment. While the intervention appeared to reduce peer violence victimization and perpetration, a conflicting finding emerged—the intervention may have increased dating violence perpetration (or at least the reporting of it) but not dating violence victimization.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Teenage Dating Violence Prevention Programming in Schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly M. Black ◽  
Alicia Hawley ◽  
Richard Hoefer ◽  
Tracey M. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Prevention Programming

The Impact of the Gender Differences Controversy on Female-Specific Physical Dating Violence Prevention Programming

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 1025-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Shorey ◽  
Catherine V. Strauss ◽  
Ellen Haynes ◽  
Tara L. Cornelius ◽  
Gregory L. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Prevention Programming ◽  
Physical Dating Violence ◽  
Female Specific ◽  
The Impact

Examining Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Dating Violence Victimization and Anger in College Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren A. Rutter ◽  
Robin P. Weatherill ◽  
Casey T. Taft ◽  
Robert J. Orazem
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Psychological Victimization

It has been well established that dating violence victimization is associated with various mental health problems. Relatively, little is known about similarities and differences between mental health correlates of dating violence victimization for males and females. We examined the associations between physical and psychological victimization experiences and measures of anger in a sample of 200 male and female undergraduates. Results suggest that men’s victimization was more strongly associated with different forms of anger than women’s victimization.

Polydrug Use and Dating Violence Among Emerging Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052093442
Author(s):  
Hye Jeong Choi ◽  
Hannah Grigorian ◽  
Alisa Garner ◽  
Gregory L. Stuart ◽  
Jeff. R. Temple
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Heavy Alcohol ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
Polysubstance Use

We examined sociodemographic and psychosocial risk factors that moderate the (poly) substance use and dating violence victimization and perpetration relationship among emerging adults. Using an ethnically diverse sample ( N = 698), we used latent class analyses to identify mutually exclusive groups based on monthly and past-year substance use. We then examined these groups as they relate to dating violence victimization and perpetration and the moderating effect of various risk factors. Five classes were identified based on substance use patterns: (a) Regular Alcohol use, (b) Polysubstance use, (c) Heavy Alcohol and Marijuana use, (d) Mild Alcohol use, and (e) Occasional Alcohol and Marijuana use classes. Participants in the Polysubstance use class were the most likely to perpetrate dating violence followed by Heavy Alcohol and Marijuana use, Occasional Alcohol and Marijuana use, Regular Alcohol, and Mild Alcohol use classes. Similarly, participants in the Polysubstance use class were the most likely to be victims of dating violence followed by Occasional Alcohol and Marijuana, Heavy Alcohol and Marijuana, Regular Alcohol, and Mild Alcohol use classes. Depending on substance use class, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, history of dating violence, and trauma symptoms differentially influenced dating violence perpetration and victimization at 1-year follow-up. Our findings support the need to comprehensively address dating violence among emerging adults. Intimate partner violence prevention and intervention programs may benefit from targeting emerging adults who misuse substances and incorporating substance use interventions into dating violence prevention efforts.

Violence Trajectories Associated With Dating Violence Victimization and Perpetration: An Examination of Gendered Pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Henriikka Weir ◽  
Catherine Kaukinen
Keyword(s):  
Dating Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gendered Pathways

The present study investigated the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) during adolescence and early adulthood and general involvement in violence using publicly available data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Longitudinal Latent Class Analysis (LLCA) was utilized to investigate the patterns of violence among victims and perpetrators of IPV. The longitudinal developmental trajectories of violence involvement were then separately compared and contrasted between males and females experiencing IPV victimization and/or perpetration as well as males and females not experiencing IPV victimization and/or perpetration. While majority of youth scored low on involvement in violence as evidenced by assignment into an “abstainer” category, multiple diverse longitudinal trajectories of violence involvement were identified based on gender and exposure to IPV.

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