Guadalupe Espinoza

University of Ca, Los Angeles

Audrey Hokoda

North Park State University

Emilio C. Ulloa

North Park State University

Monica D. Ulibarri

University of Ca, North Park

Donna Castaneda

North Park State University

Abstract

Teen relationship physical violence is a worldwide occurrence connected with undesirable results. Like in other countries, teenager relationship violence is of concern in Mexico. Nonetheless, few research reports have analyzed the chance and protective facets of teenager relationship violence among Mexican adolescents. The present research examined whether patriarchal opinions and contact with authoritarian parenting among Mexican adolescents are connected with perpetration and victimization of physical and verbal-emotional teenager relationship violence. 2 hundred and four pupils (15 – 18 years of age) from Monterrey, Mexico finished questionnaires. Hierarchical regression analyses controlling for age unveiled that among girls, authoritarian parenting ended up being related to real and verbal-emotional victimization and verbal-emotional physical violence perpetration. Among men, greater recommendation of patriarchal values had been connected with reduced reports of real perpetration and victimization that is physical.

Relationship physical violence is a substantial social and wellness concern impacting adolescents that are many. a big percentage of studies on relationship violence have actually mainly dedicated to college-aged White populations ( ag e.g., Harned, 2001; Jackson, 1999; Luthra & Gidycz, 2006) or maybe more generally speaking on U.S. and Canadian adolescents (Lewis & Fremouw, 2001). Nonetheless, an ever growing human body of research with examples away from united states declare that teenager relationship violence (TRV) is a phenomenon that is globalConnolly et al., 2010; Gover, Park, Tomsich, & Jennings, 2011; Schiff & Zeira, 2005).

A few studies suggest that relationship partner violence can also be commonplace in Mexico. Though it is generally tough to draw cross-national evaluations in prevalence prices as a result of various definitions of exactly what constitutes TRV (and differing implications associated with the construct which can be certain to every nation) or time that is different utilized to measure TRV across studies ( e.g., last thirty days versus this past year), a research of college pupils across 31 universities in 16 nations ( e.g., U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia) assists illuminate the significance of studying TRV in Mexico (Straus, 2004). Results revealed that throughout the 31 places, college students from Mexico reported the 2nd rate that is highest of general attack perpetration ( ag e.g., forced or shoved my partner) with 42% reporting actually assaulting a dating partner within the last few one year. More over, in a report of almost 8,000 Mexican youth (many years 11 – 24), Rivera-Rivera and peers (2007) reported prevalence rates including 4% to 23per cent for victimization and perpetration of both real and emotional physical violence. In specific, girls reported somewhat more victimization of emotional physical physical physical violence than males (9.4% and 8.6%, correspondingly), although guys reported greater violence that is physical than girls (22.7% and 9.9%, correspondingly). Pertaining to perpetration of physical violence, about 20% of girls and boys reported perpetrating violence that is physical and more or less 4% of girls and boys reported perpetrating mental violence inside their dating relationships. Furthermore, dating physical physical violence against Mexican ladies has been confirmed to be connected with greater likelihood of victims reporting despair, liquor punishment, and bad educational performance (Rivera-Rivera, Allen, Rodriguez-Ortega, Chávez-Ayala, & Lazcano-Ponce, 2006). Despite proof that dating and violence that is domestic a predominant issue in Mexico, few studies ( ag e.g., Antônio & Hokoda, 2009; Clarey, Hokoda, & Ulloa, 2010; Rivera-Rivera et al., 2007) have actually analyzed danger and protective facets related to TRV perpetration and victimization among girls and boys. The present research examines two influential facets in Mexican tradition that research when you look at the U.S. has linked to relationship physical violence but that remain unstudied in Mexico: patriarchal opinions and parenting that is authoritarian.

Offered the high prevalence of dating and violence that is domestic Mexico (Rivera-Rivera et al., 2007), and limited research examining TRV among adolescents in Mexico, it’s clear that there surely is a necessity for empirical investigations regarding TRV as well as its connected risk and protective facets in Mexican adolescents. The present research examines the prevalence of TRV victimization and perpetration among an example of Mexican teenagers during belated adolescence. Our focus is on belated adolescence since it is a vital stage that is developmental youth start to form more intimate relationships with peers and therefore, are often the full time whenever physical violence likely happens in dating relationships (Gorman-Smith, Tolan, Sheidow, & Henry, 2001; Smith, White, & Holland, 2003). In addition, the existing study will examine patriarchal thinking and authoritarian parenting in relationship to perpetration and victimization of two kinds of violence: real and violence that is verbal-emotional. Previous research suggests that associations with TRV might differ for females and guys among adolescents through the U.S. and Canada (Callahan, Tolman, & Saunders, 2003; Sears, Byers, & cost, 2007). For instance, Callahan and peers (2003) unearthed that although relationship physical violence victimization ended up being connected with reduced emotional wellbeing both for adolescent girls and boys, a couple of distinct links emerged. This is certainly, among men the regularity of victimization had been related to anxiety, despair and posttraumatic anxiety whereas for females, regularity of victimization had been just connected with dissociation (accounting for settings). In a report perpetration that is examining of, alcohol usage predicted perpetration only among girls and keeping attitudes which are accepting of dating physical violence predicted perpetration just among males (Foshee, Linder, MacDougall, & Bangdlwala, 2001). These studies highlight that factors which either increase or decrease the probability of involvement in TRV might vary for girls and boys. Consequently, when you look at the study that is current will examine whether associations between patriarchal opinions and authoritarian parenting and TRV differ by sex among Mexican adolescents.