title: Gender Role Attitudes and Male Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration: Normative Beliefs as Moderators.
abstract: Commonly used dating violence prevention programs assume that promotion of more egalitarian gender role attitudes will prevent dating violence perpetration. Empirical research examining this assumption, however, is limited and inconsistent. The current study examined the longitudinal association between gender role attitudes and physical dating violence perpetration among adolescent boys (n = 577; 14 % Black, 5 % other race/ethnicity) and examined whether injunctive (i.e., acceptance of dating violence) and descriptive (i.e., beliefs about dating violence prevalence) normative beliefs moderated the association. As expected, the findings suggest that traditional gender role attitudes at T1 were associated with increased risk for dating violence perpetration 18 months later (T2) among boys who reported high, but not low, acceptance of dating violence (injunctive normative beliefs) at T1. Descriptive norms did not moderate the effect of gender role attitudes on dating violence perpetration. The results suggest that injunctive norms and gender role attitudes work synergistically to increase risk for dating violence perpetration among boys; as such, simultaneously targeting both of these constructs may be an effective prevention approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 319E Rosenau Hall CB# 7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7400, USA. mcnaught@email.unc.edu.
authors.forename: H Luz McNaughton
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 319E Rosenau Hall CB# 7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7400, USA.
authors.forename: Vangie A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Foshee
authors.affiliation: Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Phyllis Holditch
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Niolon
authors.affiliation: Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Dennis E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Reidy
authors.affiliation: Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D005006:Ethnicity; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Adolescence; Dating violence; Gender role attitudes; Longitudinal; Normative beliefs
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