Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Revisiting the role of communication in adolescent intimate partner violence
Other Titles:	Journal of interpersonal violence
Authors:	Lessel, Harriet Davidson, Leslie L Messinger, Adam M Rickert, Vaughn I Fry, Deborah A
Keywords:	Dating violence
Year:	2012
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	27 (14), September 2012
Notes:	A growing literature suggests that communication strategies can promote or inhibit intimate partner violence (IPV). Research on communication is still needed on a group ripe for early IPV intervention: high school–aged adolescents. This article revisits our previous analyses of young female reproductive clinic patients (Messinger, Davidson, & Rickert, 2011) by examining how the adolescent and young adult respondents differ. To explore replicability of the adolescent results across populations, they are compared to 487 adolescent female students sampled from four urban high schools. Across samples, all communication strategies were used more frequently within violent relationships. Multivariate analysis identified escalating strategies used and received as being positively associated with physical violence used and received in all three samples. Regarding verbal reasoning and temporary conflict avoidance, substantial differences appeared between the young adult and adolescent clinic samples, and results from the adolescent clinic sample were largely replicated with the adolescent school sample, suggesting that young adult samples in this literature are not adequate proxies for adolescents. [?2012 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SAGE Publications link.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16722
ISSN:	0886-2605
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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