Davranışsal/ortamsal özellikler ergen flört şiddetini açıklayabilir mi? Yetişkin örneklemlerle çalışmalardan çıkarımlar

Abstract

Adolescent dating violence (ADV) is a prevalent social health problem ranging between 9% to 46 percent (Glass et al., 2003). Both girls and boys may be victims and perpetrators (Taquette & Monteiro, 2019). However, prevalence rates of severe ADV victimization and negative health outcomes are higher for girls (Glass et al., 2003). ADV and adult intimate partner violence (IPV) share common aspects in this regard. There are efforts to define the psychological characteristics of adult IPV victims (Marshall, 1996). Adult IPV victims and perpetrators have been shown to be able to predict the increase in violence motives of perpetrators (Babcock et al., 2004; Taşkale & Sertel-Berk, 2020). Antecedents to violent episodes including behavioral/contextual characteristics provide an opportunity to operationalize violence motives (Taşkale & Babcock, in preparation). A current project focuses on the behavioral/contextual characteristics of adult IPV victim women (Taşkale, 2020). The preliminary results revealed that IPV victim women do not present a variation in terms of coping strategies that they utilize to combat antecedents of violence. Instead, they apply whatever means they have in a survivor manner. Also, the violent episode is better predicted by male characteristics when behavioral/contextual predictors of violence are analyzed concurrently for both partners. These results which were obtained from the United States and Türkiye highlight the importance of gender dynamics while focusing on IPV. ADV is also viewed as a product of patriarchal cultural norms (Taquette & Monteiro, 2019). However, there is a need to define and further examine the behavioral/contextual characteristics of ADV victims and perpetrators. This line of research may be fruitful since behavioral/contextual characteristics have been shown to carry comparably higher effect sizes to explain adult IPV (Stith et al., 2004). Adaptations of the knowledge acquired from adult IPV studies to ADV may provide new insights into the issue.