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Internalizing symptoms and dating violence perpetration in adolescence

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Journal of Adolescence
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Background: Increasing evidence suggests an association between internalizing symptoms and violence against others. It remains unknown whether this link exists in the context of romantic relationships. In the current study, we tested whether anxiety and depression were associated over time with adolescent dating violence perpetration. Methods: The sample included 238 Canadian adolescents (42% boys). Using a longitudinal design, their anxiety, depressive symptoms, and dating violence perpetration were annually assessed from age 14 to 15 years. Results: Cross-lagged analyses revealed effects from anxiety and depressive symptoms to dating violence one year later (β = 0.27, p < .001; and β = 0.14, p = .04, respectively). No reversed cross-lagged paths were found from dating violence to subsequent anxiety or depression. Conclusions: Our findings underscore the predictive value of internalizing symptoms on dating violence perpetration. Reducing internalizing symptoms and improving coping strategies are important targets for the prevention of dating violence.

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... Due to evocative person-environment transactions, depressed adolescents may be more likely to engage in maladaptive interactional patterns of behavior which may increase the risk of victimization and the experience of hostility and violence in intimate relationships. Other lines of research suggest that depressed adolescents may become perpetrators of dating violence as they "act out" their depressed mood (Yu et al., 2018). In a longitudinal study, Yu et al. (2017) found significant links between depression and aggression and argued that symptoms of depression that are more prevalent in adolescents (e.g., irritability, mood swings, temper tantrums) could mediate this association. ...
... In a longitudinal study, Smith et al. (2021) found consistent support for adolescents' internalizing symptoms predicting victimization over several time points, but inconsistent evidence was found for the reverse association. Yu et al. (2018) showed that adolescents' symptoms of depression and anxiety predicted dating violence perpetration 1 year later, but violence perpetration did not predict anxiety and depressive symptomatology. Furthermore, van Dulmen et al. (2012) found that adolescents' suicidality predicted dating violence victimization over time but dating violence victimization did not predict suicidality. ...
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The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine bidirectional associations of adolescents’ internalizing symptoms with dating violence victimization and perpetration . We conducted secondary analyses of the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development data ( n = 974). Each adolescent completed items from the Conflict Tactics Scale (at ages 15 and 17 years) to assess psychological, physical, and sexual dating violence victimization and perpetration in the past 12 months. Adolescents’ symptoms of depression and general anxiety in the past 12 months were self-reported (at ages 15 and 17 years) using The Mental Health and Social Inadaptation Assessment for Adolescents. There were concurrent associations of adolescents’ internalizing symptoms with dating violence victimization and perpetration. Internalizing symptoms at age 15 years were positively associated with dating violence victimization and perpetration 2 years later in both males and females, even after adjusting for baseline characteristics. However, neither dating violence victimization nor perpetration at age 15 years was associated with internalizing symptoms 2 years later. For males and females, internalizing symptoms put adolescents at risk for future dating violence victimization and perpetration . Interventions that target internalizing symptoms may have the potential to decrease subsequent dating violence.
... A mediano plazo, pueden presentar ideas obsesivas, incapacidad para concentrarse, insomnio, pesadillas, llanto incontrolado, mayor consumo de fármacos y adicciones. (17,18) También puede presentarse una reacción tardía descripta como síndrome de estrés postraumático, consiste en una serie de trastornos emocionales, que no necesariamente aparecen temporalmente asociados con la situación que los originó, pero que constituyen una secuela de situaciones traumáticas vividas, tales como haber estado sometida a situaciones de maltrato físico o psicológico. Algunos de sus síntomas son: trastornos del sueño (pesadillas e insomnio), trastornos amnésicos, depresión, ansiedad, sentimientos de culpa, trastornos por somatización, fobias y miedos diversos, disfunciones sexuales y el uso de la violencia hacia otros como con los propios hijos. ...
... Algunos de sus síntomas son: trastornos del sueño (pesadillas e insomnio), trastornos amnésicos, depresión, ansiedad, sentimientos de culpa, trastornos por somatización, fobias y miedos diversos, disfunciones sexuales y el uso de la violencia hacia otros como con los propios hijos. (18,19) A nivel social puede ocurrir un deterioro de las relaciones personales, aislamiento social y la pérdida del empleo debido al incremento del ausentismo y a la disminución del rendimiento laboral. ...
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... En otras investigaciones, se ha hallado una asociación entre síntomas emocionales de ansiedad y depresión con violencia sobre la pareja (Ruiz-Pérez, Rodríguez-Barranco, Cervilla & Ricci-Cabello, 2018;Yu, Peplerb, Van de Bongardt, Josephsond & Connolly, 2018), así como entre depresión y victimización (Judd, Schettler, Coryell, Akiskal & Fiedorowicz, 2013;Øverup, Hadden, Knee & Rodríguez, 2017;Van Ouytse et al., 2017). ...
... En este orden de ideas, una fortaleza de esta investigación ha sido presentar a través de dos modelos los diferentes factores asociados con el maltrato y la victimización de la violencia en las relaciones de pareja en una muestra de adolescentes colombianos. Estos hallazgos se constitu-yen en un insumo para orientar procesos de prevención e intervención de este fenómeno en población adolescente (Stovera, Choib & Mayesa, 2018;Yu et al., 2018). ...
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El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo elaborar un modelo sobre la asociación de los problemas de adaptación con la agresión y la victimización de la violencia en las relaciones de parejas adolescentes colombianas. Se tomó una muestra de 599 adolescentes con edades entre 13 y 19 años, escolarizados en instituciones educativas públicas y privadas de Bogotá, Colombia. Se aplicaron el cuestionario del Sistema de Evaluación de la Conducta de Niños y Adolescentes, versión autoinforme, y el inventario de conflicto en las relaciones en el noviazgo adolescente. Para el análisis de los datos, se utilizó la técnica de ecuaciones estructurales. Se presentan dos modelos determinados diferencialmente por la variable sexo: en los hombres los problemas de adaptación se relacionan con la agresión y en las mujeres se asocian con la victimización, hallazgos que ofrecen lineamientos para la prevención e intervención de la violencia de pareja en adolescentes. Abstract The present study aimed to develop a model of the association of adjustment problems with aggression and victimization of violence in Colombian adolescent couple relationships. A sample was taken of 599 adolescents with ages between 13 and 19 years, schooled in public and private educational institutions of Bogota, Colombia. The Children and Adolescents Behavior Assessment System Questionnaire-version of Self-Report and the Conflict Inventory in Relationships in Adolescent Dating was applied. For the analysis of the data, a model of structural equations was used. Two models determined differentially by the sex variable are presented; In men, adjustment problems are related to aggression and in women they are associated with victimization, findings that offer guidelines for the prevention and intervention of partner violence in adolescents.
... A mediano plazo, pueden presentar ideas obsesivas, incapacidad para concentrarse, insomnio, pesadillas, llanto incontrolado, mayor consumo de fármacos y adicciones. (17,18) También puede presentarse una reacción tardía descripta como síndrome de estrés postraumático, consiste en una serie de trastornos emocionales, que no necesariamente aparecen temporalmente asociados con la situación que los originó, pero que constituyen una secuela de situaciones traumáticas vividas, tales como haber estado sometida a situaciones de maltrato físico o psicológico. Algunos de sus síntomas son: trastornos del sueño (pesadillas e insomnio), trastornos amnésicos, depresión, ansiedad, sentimientos de culpa, trastornos por somatización, fobias y miedos diversos, disfunciones sexuales y el uso de la violencia hacia otros como con los propios hijos. ...
... Algunos de sus síntomas son: trastornos del sueño (pesadillas e insomnio), trastornos amnésicos, depresión, ansiedad, sentimientos de culpa, trastornos por somatización, fobias y miedos diversos, disfunciones sexuales y el uso de la violencia hacia otros como con los propios hijos. (18,19) A nivel social puede ocurrir un deterioro de las relaciones personales, aislamiento social y la pérdida del empleo debido al incremento del ausentismo y a la disminución del rendimiento laboral. ...
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Fundamento: La violencia intrafamiliar afecta a niveles crecientes la salud física, psicoemocional y social de quienes la sufren. Objetivo: Sistematizar el comportamiento de este fenómeno en la actualidad. Desarrollo: El trabajo tuvo como base la búsqueda bibliográfica y los resultados de investigaciones con familias cubanas. Se enfoca en las generalidades sobre la violencia intrafamiliar, la violencia intrafamiliar como problema de salud, la violencia intrafamiliar en los diferentes contextos socioculturales y se proponen orientaciones generales para su prevención, útiles para la labor asistencial, investigativa y docente de los profesionales de la salud. Conclusiones: La violencia intrafamiliar con sus múltiples expresiones se considera dañina y en la actualidad no se puede señalar con exactitud cuánto afecta la salud psicológica, física, social y sexual de las personas que la sufren.
... However, researchers found that rejection experience increases health-risk behaviors (e.g., aggressive behavior, drug and alcohol use) [45], and emotional problems (e.g., emotion dysregulation, anxiety) for adults who reported lower psychological resilience than those high in psychological resilience [46]. In turn, these emotional problems and risky behaviors are significantly linked with traditional and cyber dating abuse perpetration and victimization [11,12,47,48]. Besides, the direct evidence verifies the buffer role of psychological resilience in the association of early negative interpersonal interaction and later aggression [49,50]. ...
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Background As emerging adults are increasingly reliant on instant messaging applications for communication with romantic partners, cyber dating abuse perpetration (CDAP) and victimization (CDAV) have proliferated. This has aroused the high attention of researchers. This study aimed to explore the mechanism of the influence of peer phubbing on CDAP and CDAV in Chinese context. Methods 566 Chinese college students (average age of 19.31 years, 47.7% females) were investigated with the generic scale of being phubbed, rejection sensitivity questionnaire, Chinese version of resilience scale and cyber dating abuse questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using a moderated mediation model with SPSS and the PROCESS. Results The results revealed that: (1) peer phubbing had a significant positive predictive effect on CDAP (β = .32, p < .001) and CDAV (β = .43, p < .001) respectively. (2) Rejection sensitivity played a partial mediating role both between peer phubbing and CDAP (indirect effect = .12, 95% CI = [.05, .18], accounting for 37.5%) and CDAV (indirect effect = .09, 95% CI = [.05, .14], accounting for 20.9%. (3) The first half (β = − .27, p < .001) of the indirect effect of peer phubbing on CDAP and CDAV are weakened by psychological resilience, and the direct paths were also weakened by psychological resilience(β = − .13, p < .001;β = − .16, p < .001). Conclusion These findings highlight the importance of discerning the mechanisms moderating the mediated paths linking peer phubbing to CDAP and CDAV. The results also underline the importance of implementing measures and interventions to use the protective role of psychological resilience on college students’ CDAP and CDAV.
... This allowed adolescents to confidentially learn about healthy and unhealthy relationships, find user-friendly and youth-serving service providers, and potentially reduce their confusion, feelings of isolation, and stigma associated with DV. myPlan was not more effective on the secondary outcomes of psychological abuse, physical or sexual violence victimization, perpetration of psychological abuse, or depression; all of these secondary outcomes decreased over time in both groups, with no significant difference between the groups. Longitudinal research with adolescents has found mixed results regarding the progression of depression and anxiety symptoms and DV over time without intervention [9,10], although the typically short nature of adolescent dating relationships and methodological inconsistencies make interpretation or comparisons difficult, this is a common challenge in DV research [10,19]. There remains an incomplete understanding of how victimization and perpetration in adolescent dating relationships contribute to poor mental health outcomes, including suicide behavior, but associations between DV and suicide behavior are strong [12e15]. ...
... De hecho, y en la misma línea que investigaciones previas, el doble rol de agresor-víctima ocasional en la pareja parece estar principalmente relacionado con su falta de experiencia en las relaciones de pareja y con dificultades para manejar los conflictos que surgen en estas relaciones (Viejo, 2014), junto con la influencia de algunos mitos del amor romántico que les generan dependencias emocionales, celos e inseguridades (Cava et al., 2020;Zeigler-Hill et al., 2015). A este respecto, en diversos estudios previos (Cheng et al., 2022;Yu et al., 2018), se ha observado que una implicación ocasional en el doble rol de agresor-víctima conlleva menos consecuencias negativas para el bienestar y ajuste psicosocial de los adolescentes que su implicación frecuente en el doble rol agresor-víctima, que sí tiene un impacto negativo grave en su bienestar psicosocial. ...
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Diferentes estudios evidencian la relación entre la violencia entre iguales y de pareja en adolescentes. Sin embargo, se precisa mayor conocimiento sobre ellas. El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar posibles diferencias en violencia entre iguales (ejercida y sufrida) en adolescentes con diferente rol en la violencia de pareja (agresor, víctima, agresor-víctima y no implicado). La muestra inicial estuvo compuesta por 1078 adolescentes, pero para los propósitos del estudio se consideró a los que tuvieron pareja en el último año, 672 adolescentes (51,6% chicas) entre 12-18 años (M= 14,45; DT= 1,62). Estos adolescentes completaron la escala CADRI, la escala VE-I de victimización entre iguales y la escala de conducta violenta de Little et al. (2003). Los resultados indicaron que la victimización y violencia entre iguales estaba relacionada con el abuso de pareja. El alumnado con rol frecuente de agresor-víctima en la pareja mostraba más violencia entre iguales. Las chicas víctimas de violencia de pareja eran más victimizadas por sus compañeros. Estos resultados evidencian una fuerte relación entre estas problemáticas, que afectan gravemente al bienestar de los adolescentes.
... In fact, and in the same line as previous research, the double role of occasional aggressor-victim in the couple seems to be mainly related to their lack of experience in dating relationships and difficulties in managing the conflicts that arise in these relationships (Viejo, 2014), together with the influence of some myths of romantic love that generate emotional dependencies, jealousy and insecurities (Cava et al., 2020;Zeigler-Hill et al., 2015). In this regard, in several previous studies (Cheng et al., 2022;Yu et al., 2018), it has been observed that an occasional involvement in the dual role of aggressor-victim entails fewer negative consequences for the well-being and psychosocial adjustment of adolescents than their frequent involvement in the aggressor-victim dual role, which does have a serious negative impact on their psychosocial well-being. ...
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Different studies show the relationship between peer violence and teen dating violence. However, more knowledge is needed about this relationship. The aim of this study was to explore possible differences in peer violence (perpetrated and suffered) in adolescents with different role in teen dating violence (aggressor, victim, aggressor-victim, and not involved). The initial sample was composed of 1078 adolescents, but for the purposes of this study, only those students who had a partner in the last year were considered, 672 students (51.6% girls) aged 12-18 years (M= 14.45, SD= 1.62). These adolescents completed the CADRI scale, the VE-I peer victimization scale, and the violent behavior scale by Little et al. (2003). The results indicated that peer violence victimization and perpetration were closely related to dating abuse (victimization and perpetration) in adolescents. Students with frequent aggressor-victim role in partner relationships showed more peer violence behaviors. Girls victims of teen dating violence were more victimized by their classmates. These results show a strong relationship between these two problems, which seriously affect the well-being of adolescents.
... These traits encompass Bell and Naugle (2008)'s contextual framework of IPV etiology, which accounts for the heterogeneity of IPV by including these proximal risk factors in tandem with distal interpersonal antecedents. For example, internalizing symptoms (e.g., depression and anxiety) were longitudinal predictors of IPV perpetration, which may be mediated by traits that often accompany a perpetrator's internalizing symptoms such as irritability, poor emotion regulation, and agitation (Judd et al., 2013;Yu et al., 2018). Further, risky behavior such as alcohol and drug use as well as risky sexual behavior (e.g., having multiple sexual partners, early sexual debut) are empirically supported predictors of IPV perpetration in adolescence (Vagi et al., 2013). ...
... Fourteen articles (9 unique studies) reported on the long-term associations between TDV and different mental health outcomes, such as internalizing symptoms, 32 ...
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... Prior work indicates that experiencing physical and/or sexual violence in childhood is one of the most significant risk factors for ADV exposure [9,18]. Moreover, mental health and substance use have been found to have an association with involvement in ADV, specifically symptoms of depression and anxiety and consumption of alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs [19,20]. It is unclear whether these are linked, in terms of whether the childhood abuse increases the risk of mental illness and substance use which then in turn heightens the risk for ADV. ...
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... The interpretation of the results is tentative given the novel nature of the study, and points to the evidence of the emotional costs of school violence and the importance of emotion and behavior regulation to undermine the social costs of personal distress. addition to these alarming figures, the most frequent forms of TDV (i.e., emotional violence and control tactics) are related to poor emotional adjustment and a higher probability of suicidal ideation on the side of the victim [6,7], and may be linked to later violence within adult relationships [8,9]. For these reasons, delving into the study of the factors associated to TDV (for a review of the risk factors associated to TDV see [10,11]) becomes the target of researchers and educators interested in the early detection and prevention of this pattern of behaviour. ...
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... In this study, the sexual assault group among high school students reported high rates of suicidal thoughts. This fits with recent research suggesting that internalizing symptoms may be a risk factor for peer violence (Yu et al., 2018). This finding supports calls for shifting the focus of prevention in high school from a focus on bullying exclusively to inclusion of topics related to relationship abuse and sexual assault (De La Rue et al., 2017;Lundgren & Amin, 2015). ...
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... (Judd, Schettler, Coryell, Akiskal, & Fiedorowicz, 2013;Miga et al., 2010;Temple, 2016;Yu, Pepler, Van de Bongardt, Josephson, & Connolly, 2018). Adicionalmente, los hombres evitan revelar la perpetración como una manera de negar el problema y su responsabilidad, así como para mantener el control sobre su pareja (Wekerle & Wolfe, 1999;Yu et al., 2018). ...
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