Money Lending Practices and Adolescent Dating Relationship Abuse: Results from a National Sample.
Research on adult intimate partner violence has demonstrated that economic considerations and financial decision-making are associated with the use of violence in marital and cohabiting relationships. Yet limited work has examined whether financial behaviors influence the use of violence in adolescent dating relationships. We use data from the National Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV) (n = 728), a comprehensive national household survey dedicated specifically to the topic of adolescent relationship abuse, to examine associations between requests for money lending, economic control/influence, financial socialization and adolescent relationship abuse among a large, diverse sample of male and female adolescents [48 % female; 30 % non-White, including Black (10 %), Hispanic (2 %), and other (18 %)]. Findings suggest that requests for money lending are associated with heightened risk of moderate and serious threats/physical violence perpetration and victimization, net of traditional predictors. We discuss the implications of our findings for intervention and prevention efforts.
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, 112 S. Copeland St., Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA. jcopp@fsu.edu.
Jennifer E
JE
Copp
NORC at the University of Chicago, 4350 East-West Highway 8th Floor, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA.
Elizabeth A
EA
Mumford
NORC at the University of Chicago, 4350 East-West Highway 8th Floor, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA.
Bruce G
BG
Taylor
D000293:Adolescent; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims; D003657:Decision Making; D004467:Economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012951:Socialization; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
Adolescence; Adolescent relationship abuse; Controlling behaviors; Economic control; Financial socialization; Instrumental support; Nationally representative sample; Teen dating violence