Effects of severity of violence and perpetrator popularity and gender on teenager's evaluations of teen dating violence

Effects of severity of violence and perpetrator popularity and gender on teenager's evaluations of teen dating violence

Dating violence

Teenagers -- Abuse of

Kellogg, Kathy

2006

Randolph, Mickey

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Violence in interpersonal relationships is nothing new. Empirical research on different types of relationship violence can be traced back over the past five to six decades- from violence between partners, parent-child violence, child-parent violence, elder abuse and sibling abuse. Few types of intimate violence have escaped investigation. In terms of partner abuse, most of the research has focused on domestic partners (i.e., individuals married or living together). In 1981, Makepeace published landmark research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in a college population, stating that more than one in five college women had experienced intimate partner violence. This helped to dispel the idealistic view of dating relationships. The current IPV literature includes research on violence between married, cohabitating, and dating couples. However, there is very little research specifically focusing on teen dating violence. This lack of research is especially troublesome when one considers that the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) of 1998 found that females age 16 through 24 experience the highest rates of victimization (Rennison & Welchans, 2000). Although existing research indicates that teen dating violence mirrors the typical pattern of domestic violence in certain aspects, such as the influence of duration of the relationship on violence, the recurring cycle of violence, and the fact that the relationship is not ended due to violence (Bergman, 1992), further research is still needed to determine more precise correlates of and perceptions regarding teen dating violence. The following literature review will define teen dating violence (TDV), provide demographic information, present several different theories of abuse, describe characteristics of the abuser and victim, and highlight correlates of abuse. The research in the area will also be critiqued and the need to explore the perceptions of interpersonal violence in dating relationships will be discussed. Most of the studies presented involve adult populations; those that involve teen samples will be noted.

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