Young adults’ viewpoints concerning helpful factors when living in an intimate partner violence context

Life Course and Emerging Adulthood: Protestant Women’s Views on Intimate Partner Violence and Divorce

“…Intimate partner violence (IPV) includes threats, coercion, stalking, as well as physical, sexual, and psychological abuse committed by a current or former partner (Alvarez-Lizotte et al 2020;Black et al 2011;Kennedy et al 2018;Renzetti et al 2017;Saltzman et al 1999). Emerging adulthood is a crucial developmental stage for dating and sexual relationships, but young women are also at heightened risk to be victims of intimate partner violence compared to other demographic groups (Manning et al 2018;Policastro and Daigle 2019;Rodenhizer et al 2021;Simonič 2021).…”

“…Researchers have used the life course approach across various fields and topics, including intimate partner violence (Jones et al 2018;Kaufman-Parks et al 2018;Krigel and Benjamin 2020;Roberto and McCann 2021;Umberson et al 2016). Social and situational factors related to the life course, such as lower socio-economic status and poverty, abusive first relationships, gender norms, childhood exposure to violence, and family characteristics, have been linked to intimate partner violence victimization and/or perpetration (Alvarez-Lizotte et al 2020;Etherington and Baker 2016;Kennedy et al 2018;Kennedy et al 2021;Tenkorang and Owusu 2018). Although the life course framework has been applied widely, hardly any literature has connected it to emerging adulthood outside of the field of criminology (Salvatore 2017) and yet, emerging adulthood is a distinct period in the life course (Arnett 2000).…”