Original articleRelationship Context and Intimate Partner Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
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Data
The TARS sample (n = 1,321) was drawn from the year 2000 enrollment records of all seventh, ninth, and 11th graders in Lucas County, Ohio. The sampling frame, devised by the National Opinion Research Center, consists of a stratified, random sample of students enrolled in school (but not necessarily attending) based on grade, race-ethnicity, and gender. The TARS sample of 1,321 is 81.3 percent of the original 1,625 students who were contacted. We conducted interviews in respondents' homes using
Results
Table 2 provides a distribution of the proportion of relationships with any IPV by the time the sample had reached wave 5 for men and women, collapsing the proportional measure into three categories—no IPV, IPV in some relationships, and IPV in all. For the total sample, continuity is represented by the 38.9% who had no IPV and 7.9% who reported always having IPV. Half (53%) experienced discontinuity in IPV, and among those reporting violence, the overwhelming majority (87%) reported some level
Discussion
This study revealed greater variability than stability in IPV across adolescence and young adulthood for men and women. More than half of respondents reported at least one IPV experience, but for most, this was not representative of their relationships overall. Less than one in 12 (8%) reported experiencing IPV in all of their relationships. Thus, consistent with prior work, we show that IPV is quite prevalent among youth. Yet, results also highlight that IPV experiences demonstrate a high
Funding Sources
This research was supported by grants from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD036223 and HD044206); the Department of Health and Human Services (5APRPA006009); the National Institute of Justice and Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice (Award Nos. 2009-IJ-CX-0503 and 2010-MU-MU-0031) and in part by the Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University, which has core funding from The Eunice Kennedy
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