Prospective Family Predictors of Aggression Toward Female Partners for At-Risk Young Men

Social learning models of the intergenerational transmission of aggression were tested for an at-risk sample of young adult men who entered a longitudinal study (Oregon Youth Study) in Grade 4 and were assessed with a female partner in young adulthood (17-20 years old). The associations of 2 family...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 1998-11, Vol.34 (6), p.1175-1188
Main Authors: Capaldi, Deborah M, Clark, Sara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Aggression
Aggressiveness
Antisocial Behavior
At risk
At Risk Persons
At Risk Populations
Battered Females
Child development
Children
Couples
Cross Generational Studies
Domestic Violence
Family - psychology
Family background
Family Influence
Female
Human
Human Development
Human Males
Humans
Intergenerational Relations
Intergenerational Transmission
Interpersonal Relations
Intimate Partner Violence
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Males
Men
Parent Child Relations
Parenting Skills
Parents
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Partners
Predictors
Prospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Social learning
Spouses
Structural Equation Models
Transgenerational Patterns
Victims
Women
Young Adults
Young men
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Summary:Social learning models of the intergenerational transmission of aggression were tested for an at-risk sample of young adult men who entered a longitudinal study (Oregon Youth Study) in Grade 4 and were assessed with a female partner in young adulthood (17-20 years old). The associations of 2 family process variables-parental dyadic aggression and unskilled parenting, assessed both in late childhood and early adolescence with the son's later aggression toward a partner-were examined. Parental antisocial behavior was hypothesized to be associated with both family process variables. Unskilled parenting was hypothesized to play a key role in the son's later aggression toward an intimate partner, mediated by his development of antisocial behavior by adolescence. Fully prospective structural equation models were tested with multimethod, multiagent data, including both observed and reported aggression toward the partner. Findings indicate that the major hypothesized pathways through unskilled parenting practices and the boys' antisocial behavior were implicated in the intergenerational transmission of aggression.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.34.6.1175