Risky Interactions: Relational and Developmental Moderators of Substance Use and Dating Aggression

Publication Date

1-15-2019

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Dating aggression, Risk factors, Substance use, Adolescence, Young adulthood

Abstract

Physical dating aggression is a prevalent and costly public health concern. A theoretical moderator model of substance use and dating aggression posits that associations between them are moderated by relational risk factors. To test these theoretical expectations, the current study examined seven waves of longitudinal data on a community-based sample of 100 male and 100 female participants in a Western U.S. city (M age Wave 1 = 15.83; 69.5% White non-Hispanic, 12.5% Hispanic, 11.5% African Americans, & 12.5% Hispanics). Multilevel models examined how links between substance use and dating aggression varied by relational risk and how these patterns changed developmentally. Main effects of relational risk and substance use emerged, particularly in adolescence. In young adulthood significant three-way interactions emerged such that substance use was more strongly associated with physical aggression when conflict and jealousy were higher. Thus, relational risk factors are integral to models of dating aggression, but their role changes developmentally.

Copyright Date

10-27-2018

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Collibee, C., Furman, W., & Shoop, J. (2019). Risky interactions: Relational and developmental moderators of substance use and dating aggression. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(1), 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0950-2

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Provenance

Received from CHORUS

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

12 pgs

File Size

685 KB

Publication Title

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volume

48

Issue

1

First Page

102

Last Page

113

ISSN

1573-6601

PubMed ID

30367368



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