Profiles and Predictors of Dating Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Sexual and gender minority adolescents report higher levels of dating violence compared with their heterosexual and cisgender peers. The objectives of the present study were to (1) identify latent profiles of dating violence; (2) examine if sexual and gender minority adolescents were particularly vulnerable to certain profiles of dating violence; and (3) explore how experiences of peer victimization, discrimination, and parental maltreatment explained this greater vulnerability.

Methods

High school students in Grades 9 and 11 from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey (N = 87,532; mean age = 15.29 years, SD = 1.23) were asked about their sexual and gender identities, their gender nonconformity, their experiences of verbal, physical, and sexual dating violence victimizati

SUBMITTER: Martin-Storey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612810 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature