title: Dating violence in teenage girls: parental emotion regulation and racial differences.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Teen dating violence (TDV) is a common phenomenon of great public concern. TDV may lead to severe long-term consequences for victims and offenders, and even more so for females than for males.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to investigate possible underlying factors for involvement in TDV either as a perpetrator or a victim. Social learning theory is commonly used to explain internalisation of parents' behaviour on children's behavioural expressions, but less so on parents' emotion regulation as a direct link to later TDV.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used longitudinal data from the Pittsburgh Girls Study (N = 2450) to investigate if and how parents' positive and negative emotion regulation is related to TDV, controlling for early aggression and race.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results show a moderately strong association between parents' negative emotion regulation and their daughters' involvement in serious dating violence. We also found that many more African American girls were involved in TDV compared to Caucasian girls, both as a perpetrator and victim.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We discuss directions for future research focusing on emotion regulation and dating violence. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Örebro University, Sweden. ahonenl@upmc.edu.
authors.forename: Lia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ahonen
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, USA.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loeber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000208:ethnology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000208:ethnology*; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000208:ethnology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010414:Pennsylvania / Q000208:ethnology; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*; D044465:White People / Q000208:ethnology*