The effect of harmful family dynamics on continuous dating violence: A mediational model

Effect of Harmful Family Dynamics on Continuous Dating Violence: A Mediational Model

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e714882011-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa B. Watts ◽

Danita D. Wynes ◽

Miguel A. Martin Del Campo ◽

Jamie Kissee ◽

Emilio Ulloa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Dating Violence ◽

Family Dynamics ◽

Mediational Model

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Effect of Harmful Family Dynamics and Depression on Continuous Dating Violence

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e625032013-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa B. Watts ◽

Emilio C. Ulloa ◽

Scott C. Roesch ◽

Audrey Hokoda

Keyword(s):

Dating Violence ◽

Family Dynamics

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Childhood maltreatment, posttraumatic stress symptomatology, and adolescent dating violence: Considering the value of adolescent perceptions of abuse and a trauma mediational model

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579401004060 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 847-871 ◽

Cited By ~ 84

Author(s):

CHRISTINE WEKERLE ◽

DAVID A. WOLFE ◽

D. LYNN HAWKINS ◽

ANNA-LEE PITTMAN ◽

ASHLEY GLICKMAN ◽

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Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Child Maltreatment ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Childhood Maltreatment ◽

Self Report ◽

Adolescent Dating Violence ◽

Mediational Model ◽

Adolescent Dating ◽

School Sample

The present study, utilizing both a child protective services and high school sample of midadolescents, examined the issue of self-report of maltreatment as it relates to issues of external validity (i.e., concordance with social worker ratings), reliability (i.e., overlap with an alternate child maltreatment self-report inventory; association of a self-labeling item as “abused” with their subscale item counterparts), and construct validity (i.e., the association of maltreatment with posttraumatic stress symptomatology and dating violence). Relevant theoretical work in attachment, trauma, and relationship violence points to a mediational model, whereby the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adolescent dating violence would be expected to be accounted for by posttraumatic stress symptomatology. In the high school sample, 1329 adolescents and, in the CPS sample, 224 youth on the active caseloads completed comparable questionnaires in the three domains of interest. For females only, results supported a mediational model in the prediction of dating violence in both samples. For males, child maltreatment and trauma symptomatology added unique contributions to predicting dating violence, with no consistent pattern emerging across samples. When considering the issue of self-labeling as abused, CPS females who self-labeled had higher posttraumatic stress symptomatology and dating violence victimization scores than did their nonlabeling, maltreated counterparts for emotional maltreatment. These results point to the need for ongoing work in understanding the process of disclosure and how maltreatment experiences are consciously conceptualized.

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The Relationship Between Suicidal Thinking and Dating Violence in a Sample of Adolescent Abortion Patients

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000082 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 32 (5) ◽

pp. 246-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Gretchen E. Ely ◽

William R. Nugent ◽

Julie Cerel ◽

Mholi Vimbba

Keyword(s):

Unintended Pregnancy ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Young Women ◽

Psychosocial Problems ◽

The Other ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Adolescent Dating Violence ◽

Adolescent Relationships ◽

Suicidal Thinking ◽

The Relationship

Background: The relationship between suicidal thinking and adolescent dating violence has not been previously explored in a sample of adolescent abortion patients. Aims: This paper highlights a study where the relationship between dating violence and severity of suicidal thinking was examined in a sample of 120 young women ages 14–21 seeking to terminate an unintended pregnancy. Methods: The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale and the Conflict in Adolescent Relationships Scale was used to gather information about psychosocial problems and dating violence so that the relationship between the two problems could be examined, while controlling for the other psychosocial problems. Results: The results suggest that dating violence was related to severity of suicidal thinking, and that the magnitude of this relationship was moderated by the severity of problems with aggression. Conclusions: Specifically, as the severity of participant’s general problems with aggression increased, the magnitude of the relationship between dating violence and severity of suicidal thinking increased. Limitations of the study and implications for practice are discussed.

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The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759.21.4.216 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 216-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

William L. Cook

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Risk Behaviors ◽

Social Relations ◽

Family Relationships ◽

Family Dynamics ◽

Family Assessment ◽

High Risk Behaviors ◽

Analysis Group ◽

The Social ◽

Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

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