Profiles and predictors of dating violence among sexual and gender minority adolescents
Journal of Adolescent Health Oct 21, 2020
Martin-Storey A, et al. - This study draws on data from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey (MSS) to identify latent dating violence profiles and to investigate whether sexual and gender minority adolescents were particularly vulnerable to certain profiles of dating violence, as well as to explore how this greater vulnerability was explained by experiences of peer victimization, discrimination, and parental maltreatment. High school students in Grades 9 and 11 from the 2016 MSS (N = 87,532; mean age = 15.29 years, SD = 1.23) were questioned about their sexual and gender identities, their gender nonconformity, their experiences of verbal, physical, and sexual dating violence victimization and perpetration, as well their experiences of childhood maltreatment, peer victimization, and gender-based and sexual minority status–based discrimination. Five profiles of dating violence victimization and perpetration across the entire sample were indicated by multinomial logistic regression analysis in a three-step latent class analysis procedure. In comparison with their heterosexual and cisgender peers, sexual and gender minority adolescents were generally more likely to be high in classes in dating violence victimization, perpetration, or both. Gender nonconformity was also related to a higher risk of being in high classes of dating violence. However, when the social stressors of childhood maltreatment, peer victimization, and experiences of discrimination were accounted for, these differences were generally nonsignificant.
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