Contextual Risk Profiles and Trajectories of Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration.

ABSTRACT: Social ecological and developmental system perspectives suggest that interactions among factors within and across multiple contexts (e.g., neighborhood, peer, family) must be considered in explaining dating violence perpetration. Yet, to date, most extant research on dating violence has focused on individual, rather than contextual predictors, and used variable-centered approaches that fail to capture the configurations of factors that may jointly explain involvement in dating violence. The current study used a person-centered approach, latent profile analysis, to identify key configurations (or profiles) of contextual risk and protective factors for dating violence perpetration across the neighborhood, school, friend and family contexts. We then examine the longitudinal associations betwe

SUBMITTER: Reyes HLM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177331 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature