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This study explored how cyber aggression perpetration moderates the relationship between dominance and emerging adults' perpetration of psychological and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) using couple data. Method: The Dating Relationships Survey was administered online to emerging adult dating couples (n ϭ 148 couples). Both partners answered the same questions about control, violence, and cyber aggression in their relationships after agreeing to an honor code that stated they would complete the survey separately. Results: Actor-partner interdependence models showed that dominance and cyber aggression have significant actor effects, but the effects are different for men's and women's psychological and physical IPV perpetration. The models also revealed significant partner effects. Contrary to the hypothesis, women's cyber aggression reduced the relationship between women's dominance and physical IPV perpetration for their boyfriends. Conclusions: Electronic communication plays an important role in mitigating physical IPV perpetration for men. As such, dating violence prevention programs should educate couples about healthy expression of emotions in an online environment to reduce the use of cyber aggression and physical IPV in romantic relationships.

Given prevalence rates and negative consequences that adolescents' perpetration of dating violence may have on an individual's well-being and future relationships, it is imperative to explore factors that may increase or reduce its occurrence. Thus, we aimed to identify how multiple contextual risk factors (individual, family, schools, and neighborhoods) were related to adolescents' perpetration of dating violence over a 6 year period. Then, we assessed how neighborhood collective efficacy, an important predictor of urban youths' well-being, buffered the relationship between each of the risk factors and adolescents' perpetration of dating violence. Three waves of data from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study were used (N = 765; Ages 16-20 at Wave 3). The sample is 53 % female, 42 % African-American, and 53 % Hispanic. For the total sample, drug and alcohol use, low parental monitoring, academic difficulties, and involvement with antisocial peers were significant early risk factors for perpetration of dating violence in late adolescence. Risk factors also varied by adolescents' race and sex. Finally, perceived neighborhood collective efficacy buffered the relationship between early academic difficulties and later perpetration of dating violence for Hispanic males. These results imply that multiple systems should be addressed in dating violence prevention programs.

While caregiver coaching approaches in early intervention have a comprehensive literature base, the field continues to experience a research-to-practice gap in the implementation of capacity-building coaching approaches. We examined the caregiver coaching divide and identified strategies for researchers and Part C programs to bridge the gap so that all families benefit from a capacity-building approach during this critical developmental period of the child’s life. Using available evidence and implementation science frameworks, we suggest five actionable strategies for research and practice teams.

This study begins to fill the methodological gap in the dating violence literature by using hierarchical linear modeling to: (a) examine whether partners agree on reports of their experiences with violence in their relationship; and (b) identify factors that may explain differences in these reports. Data from the Relationship Dimensions Survey, a survey given to 214 late adolescent dating couples were utilized. Results indicated that there was significant variation in the report of dating violence perpetration and in the gender effect across couples, but not within couples. These differences were explained by individual- and relationship-related characteristics, including physical abuse from a parent during childhood, and for males' perpetration only, whether they drank alcohol. Implications for violence prevention are discussed.