Violent Peers, Network Centrality, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration by Young Men

Longitudinal predictors of domestic violence perpetration and victimization: A systematic review

“…Narayan et al (2014) subsequently found that conflict with a best friend but not with family or a romantic partner at age 16 significantly predicted DV perpetration six years later among males and females (β = .17, p b .05). Ramirez et al (2012) found that identifying with a large network of 13 or more violent peers in adolescence was associated with a 3.76 greater odds of men's DV perpetration in young adulthood compared to having a smaller network of violent peers (p b .001).…”

“…Only those that reported on longitudinal predictors of DV perpetration and/or victimization were retained, resulting in 25 relevant articles from 14 cohorts. Cohorts with multiple studies include the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health dataset (Add Health) (Cui, Ueno, Gordon, & Fincham, 2013;Gomez, 2011;Halpern, Spriggs, Martin, & Kupper, 2009;Melander, Noel, & Tyler, 2010;Ramirez, Paik, Sanchagrin, & Heimer, 2012;Reingle, Staras, Jennings, Branchini, & Maldonado-Molina, 2012), the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) (Lussier, Farrington, & Moffitt, 2009;Theobald & Farrington, 2012), the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) (Fergusson, Bowden, & Horwood, 2008;Woodward, Fergusson, & Horwood, 2002), the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (DMHDS) (Ehrensaft, Moffitt, & Caspi, 2004;Magdol, Moffit, Caspi, & Silva, 1998), the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA, formerly Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) (Linder & Collins, 2005;Narayan, Englund, Carlson, & Egeland, 2014), the Oregon Youth Study (OYS) (Capaldi, Dishion, Stoolmiller, & Yoerger, 2001;Kerr & Capaldi, 2011), and the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) (Ireland & Smith, 2009;Smith, Ireland, Park, Elwyn, & Thornberry, 2011). Table 1 presents a summary of the studies that met the inclusion criteria.…”

“…The sample sizes of individual studies ranged from 121 (Linder & Collins, 2005) to 9421 (Reingle et al, 2012). Eighteen studies were conducted in the United States; six were based on the Add Health dataset (Cui et al, 2013;Gomez, 2011;Halpern et al, 2009;Melander et al, 2010;Ramirez et al, 2012;Reingle et al, 2012). An additional four studies were from New Zealand, two were from the United Kingdom and one was from Canada.…”

“…6-7 years (3 waves) Ramirez et al (2012) 2993 males in grade 7-12 at T1 and followed up to age 18-27 who reported a recent romantic relationship at follow up. Magdol et al (1998) 861 males and females aged 3 years at T1 followed up to age 21 and who had been in an intimate relationship for at least one month in the 12 months prior to follow up 18 years (10 waves) 5.…”

“…Indeed, these longitudinal studies generally found female perpetration and victimization were as high or higher than males (Cui et al, 2013;Fergusson et al, 2008;Gomez, 2011;Linder & Collins, 2005;Melander et al, 2010;Narayan et al, 2014;Ramirez et al, 2012;Sunday et al, 2011). Most studies grouped male and female DV together when modeling, but Magdol et al (1998) stratified their analyses by gender and found few differences in childhood and adolescent predictors of DV for males and females.…”