Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Published In
Journal of Family Violence
Keywords
Intimate partner violence, Parent-child physical aggression, Parent-child relationship quality, Longitudinal, Adolescence, Emerging adulthood
Abstract
Prior empirical research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in adolescence and young adulthood often focuses on exposure to violence in the family-of-origin using retrospective and cross-sectional data. Yet individuals’ families matter beyond simply the presence or absence of abuse, and these effects may vary across time. To address these issues, the present study employed five waves of longitudinal data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) to investigate the trajectory of IPV from adolescence to young adulthood (N = 950 respondents, 4,750 person-periods) with a specific focus on how familial factors continue to matter across the life course. Results indicated that family-of-origin violence and parent-child relationship quality were independent predictors of IPV. The effect of parent-child relationship quality on IPV also became greater as individuals aged. These results have implications for policies targeted at reducing IPV.
Grant Information
This research was supported by a grant from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD036223), and by the Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University, which has core funding from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD050959-01). The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
DOI
10.1007/s10896-017-9924-5
Rights
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2017
Recommended Citation
Kaufman-Parks, A. M.; DeMaris, A.; Giordano, P. C. ; Manning, W. D. ; and Longmore, M. A. (2018). Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Trajectories and the Role of Familial Factors. Journal of Family Violence 33(1): 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-017-9924-5
Comments
This copy is the author's Accepted Manuscript version. The final publication is available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10896-017-9924-5.