Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1177/08862605251408126
Andrew Gibbs,Smanga Mkhwanazi,Sivuyile Khaula,Laura Washington,Yandisa Sikweyiya
Men's poor mental health is increasingly recognised as a causal factor for their perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV); however, the majority of studies are from high-income countries and cross-sectional. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected as part of a randomised controlled trial, among young (ages 18-30 years) men, living in urban informal settlements in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa, to assess whether: (a) changes in depression symptoms, and (b) changes in post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, were prospectively associated with IPV perpetration, after 2-years of follow-up. Among N = 505 men retained at endline, for depressive symptoms in adjusted models, men with consistently high symptoms (adjusted Odds Ratio [aOR] = 2.02, p = .002) and those with increasing symptoms (aOR = 2.80, p < .001) between the two time points were significantly more likely to report IPV perpetration at endline. Similarly, for PTS symptoms, those whose symptoms increased between the two time points were significantly more likely to perpetrate IPV (aOR = 1.95, p = .05). However, neither decrease in depressive symptoms nor in PTS symptoms between the two time points was associated with a significant reduction in IPV perpetration. This analysis suggests that interventions to reduce IPV perpetration should include a focus on preventing the onset of symptoms of poor mental health. It may be that alcohol is also intervening in this relationship, and this requires further research. The original clinical trial was pre-registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03022370: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03022370).
越来越多的人认为，男子精神健康状况不佳是他们实施亲密伴侣暴力的一个原因；然而，大多数研究来自高收入国家和横断面。我们对一项随机对照试验收集的数据进行了二次分析，研究对象是生活在南非德科维尼市城市非正式定居点的年轻（18-30岁）男性，在2年随访后评估：(a)抑郁症状的变化和(b)创伤后应激（PTS）症状的变化是否与IPV犯罪有前瞻性关联。在终线保留的N = 505名男性中，在调整模型中抑郁症状持续高的男性(调整优势比[aOR] = 2.02, p =。002)和症状加重者（aOR = 2.80, p < 0.05）。001)在两个时间点之间更有可能在终点报告IPV犯罪。同样，对于PTS症状，在两个时间点之间症状加重的患者更有可能发生IPV （aOR = 1.95, p = 0.05）。然而，在两个时间点之间，抑郁症状和PTS症状的减少都与IPV犯罪的显著减少无关。这一分析表明，减少IPV犯罪的干预措施应包括侧重于预防不良心理健康症状的出现。酒精也可能介入了这种关系，这需要进一步的研究。最初的临床试验在clinicaltrials.gov （NCT03022370: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03022370）上进行了预注册。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1177/08862605251412353
Vladislav Ruchkin,Andrew Stickley,Roman Koposov,Denis G Sukhodolsky,Johan Isaksson
The ways of expressing aggression may differ by gender and change with advancing age becoming more indirect or covert. In contrast to other types of aggression, boys and girls may be similar in their use of relational aggression (RA), which may replace other types of aggression by adolescence. Despite this, the relationships between RA and other types of aggression by gender and age are underexplored. This study aimed to compare RA in adolescents from Northwestern Russia and to explore its associations with other types of aggression, related emotions and cognitions, and peer victimization, taking into account the interaction effects between RA, gender, and age. The analytic sample consisted of 2,838 participants, aged 13 to 17 years (57.9% female; 95.8% ethnic Russian). RA, physical, verbal, and proactive aggression, anger rumination, trait anger, and peer victimization were assessed by self-reports. A full path analysis was conducted to explore the associations between the variables. The prevalence of RA was largely similar by gender. Boys reported higher levels of overt aggressive behavior and peer victimization, but lower anger and anger rumination, as compared to girls. Girls and boys with greater RA similarly engaged in a wide range of other types of aggression and experienced more peer victimization, but some gender-specific patterns associated with RA were also found. Increasing age was associated with greater anger rumination and lower peer victimization. This is the first study among Russian adolescents to explore RA in relation to other types of aggression and its emotional correlates by gender. The greater variety of aggressive behavior in more relationally aggressive youth is worrying, given that chronic engagement in multiple forms of aggression carries a greater risk for subsequent problems in social adjustment. The results were in line with those from North American populations, indicating that the findings may be generalizable to other cultures.
{"title":"Relational Aggression in Russian Adolescents: Gender, Age, and Behavior and Emotional Correlates.","authors":"Vladislav Ruchkin,Andrew Stickley,Roman Koposov,Denis G Sukhodolsky,Johan Isaksson","doi":"10.1177/08862605251412353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251412353","url":null,"abstract":"The ways of expressing aggression may differ by gender and change with advancing age becoming more indirect or covert. In contrast to other types of aggression, boys and girls may be similar in their use of relational aggression (RA), which may replace other types of aggression by adolescence. Despite this, the relationships between RA and other types of aggression by gender and age are underexplored. This study aimed to compare RA in adolescents from Northwestern Russia and to explore its associations with other types of aggression, related emotions and cognitions, and peer victimization, taking into account the interaction effects between RA, gender, and age. The analytic sample consisted of 2,838 participants, aged 13 to 17 years (57.9% female; 95.8% ethnic Russian). RA, physical, verbal, and proactive aggression, anger rumination, trait anger, and peer victimization were assessed by self-reports. A full path analysis was conducted to explore the associations between the variables. The prevalence of RA was largely similar by gender. Boys reported higher levels of overt aggressive behavior and peer victimization, but lower anger and anger rumination, as compared to girls. Girls and boys with greater RA similarly engaged in a wide range of other types of aggression and experienced more peer victimization, but some gender-specific patterns associated with RA were also found. Increasing age was associated with greater anger rumination and lower peer victimization. This is the first study among Russian adolescents to explore RA in relation to other types of aggression and its emotional correlates by gender. The greater variety of aggressive behavior in more relationally aggressive youth is worrying, given that chronic engagement in multiple forms of aggression carries a greater risk for subsequent problems in social adjustment. The results were in line with those from North American populations, indicating that the findings may be generalizable to other cultures.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"63 1","pages":"8862605251412353"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146005394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1177/08862605251412367
Merry Morash
Especially for women with high prevalence and incidence of victimization and trauma, taking part in a life story interview has potential for positive benefits, but it also may leave the study participants seeing their lives and themselves in a negative light. Study participants were 116 women with repeated criminal convictions and a history of substance misuse. They were from a population known to have high prevalence of victimization of multiple types and exposure to violence. To investigate the effects of telling their life stories and to identify strategies interviewers use to maximize positive and minimize negative effects of the interviews, study participants were asked to reflect on the experience and the effects of telling their stories during an interview. Most participants identified benefits from the experience. Specifically, they felt relief from talking about negative events, they saw growth over stages in their life, they realized how negative past events led to preset positive outcomes, they clarified future steps based on their stories, and they saw how their stories could help other people. Alternatively, more than has been shown in prior research, some interview participants saw themselves as permanently contaminated, and they expressed despair about how their lives turned out. Examination of the dialogue between participants and interviewers revealed how interviewers maximized positive benefits by providing esteem and emotional support, emphasizing the value of the story to other people, and directing attention to the present and the future rather than the past. Findings are relevant to training and application for the widely used method of gathering life stories to understand both victimization and breaking the law. Findings also show the need for future research on positive strategies to use in interviewing other groups with very adverse life experiences, such as combat veterans, transgender individuals, and targets of racial/ethnic discrimination.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-19DOI: 10.1177/08862605251408136
Eric Landers,Meredith A Rausch,Kymberly Harris,Juliann Sergi McBrayer,Antonio Gutierrez De Blume,Monika Krah
Bullying poses ongoing challenges to student safety and well-being in schools, yet many instruments, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, do not address bystander behavior. This study examined how 3,717 middle and high school students in 14 schools in the western United States respond when witnessing bullying and what factors influence their responses. Findings suggest that friendship with the target significantly increased both defending behaviors and the likelihood that bullying stopped or decreased. Gender influenced responses, with female students more likely to report and male students more likely to fight back. Racial alignment between bystander and target predicted higher reporting rates and intervention success, raising concerns about in-group favoritism. Physical bullying prompted more intervention than verbal and relational bullying, though verbal bullying was more prevalent. Findings underscore the need for culturally responsive, relationship-focused interventions to strengthen bystander engagement across contexts.
{"title":"Who's Watching, Who's Waiting? Predictors of Bystander Intervention in Adolescent Bullying.","authors":"Eric Landers,Meredith A Rausch,Kymberly Harris,Juliann Sergi McBrayer,Antonio Gutierrez De Blume,Monika Krah","doi":"10.1177/08862605251408136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251408136","url":null,"abstract":"Bullying poses ongoing challenges to student safety and well-being in schools, yet many instruments, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, do not address bystander behavior. This study examined how 3,717 middle and high school students in 14 schools in the western United States respond when witnessing bullying and what factors influence their responses. Findings suggest that friendship with the target significantly increased both defending behaviors and the likelihood that bullying stopped or decreased. Gender influenced responses, with female students more likely to report and male students more likely to fight back. Racial alignment between bystander and target predicted higher reporting rates and intervention success, raising concerns about in-group favoritism. Physical bullying prompted more intervention than verbal and relational bullying, though verbal bullying was more prevalent. Findings underscore the need for culturally responsive, relationship-focused interventions to strengthen bystander engagement across contexts.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"10500 1","pages":"8862605251408136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145994998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-19DOI: 10.1177/08862605251399678
Yolanda Sánchez-Carro,Elizabeth Suárez-Soto,Marina Díaz-Marsá,Alejandro de la Torre-Luque,Jorge Andreo-Jover,Wala Ayad-Ahmed,María Teresa Bobes-Bascarán,María Botí,Manuel Canal-Rivero,Annabel Cebrià,Benedicto Crespo-Facorro,Matilde Elices,Ana González-Pinto,Iria Grande,Luis Jiménez-Treviño,Diego José Palao,Ángela Palao-Tarrero,Juan Manuel Pastor-Haro,Natalia Roberto,Pilar Alejandra Sáiz,Iñaki Zorrilla, ,Víctor Pérez-Solà
Suicide rates have increased notably in Spain, particularly among the migrant population, where mortality by suicide rose by 25% between 2018 and 2021. Migrants are exposed to cumulative stressors, including socioeconomic adversity, acculturative challenges, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that may heighten the risk of suicidal behavior. This study aimed to examine and compare the risk factors associated with suicide attempts among foreign-born and native-born individuals in Spain, with particular emphasis on the role of ACEs. A sample of 754 patients assessed 15 days after a suicide attempt (73.1% female; M = 40.23, SD = 15.72) from the SURVIVE study was used. Sociodemographic, clinical, and psychological variables, including ACEs, were measured using validated instruments. Group comparisons and multigroup regression analyses were conducted to explore factors associated with suicidal outcomes based on migration status. Foreign-born patients were significantly younger and more likely to report emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect during childhood than native-born individuals. They also exhibited higher psychological distress and greater acquired capability for suicide. In multivariate models, different predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior emerged across groups. In multivariate models, different predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior emerged across groups. For native-born individuals, suicidal ideation intensity was associated with greater psychopathology severity, more diagnosed mental disorders, higher acquired capability, and a history of suicide attempts. For migrants, higher acquired capability, lower impulsivity, and a history of suicide attempts were associated with greater ideation intensity. Migrant populations in Spain demonstrate a different profile of suicide risk, marked by increased ACEs and psychological burden. These findings highlight the need for culturally sensitive suicide prevention strategies that incorporate early trauma screening and address structural vulnerabilities. Prevention protocols should prioritize trauma-informed care and social integration to mitigate suicide risk in this vulnerable population.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-18DOI: 10.1177/08862605251411875
Anastasia Rousaki,Dean Fido
Image-Based Sexual Abuse (IBSA), including deepfake sexual abuse - where fake yet lifelike sexual content is generated of non-consenting persons - constitutes a growing form of digitally mediated gender-based violence that remains largely under-researched within non-Anglophonic contexts. This study explores how IBSA is constructed and perceived by both laypeople and lawyers in Greece, a Southern European setting characterised by economic precarity, traditional gender norms, and evolving yet challenging legal frameworks. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 21 participants either originating from or living in Greece (n = 16 lay persons, n = 5 legal professionals), we employed constructionist thematic analysis to examine how participants discursively frame IBSA, its motivations, barriers to reporting, legal challenges, and preventative measures. Five themes were identified: (1) constructions of IBSA as gendered violence motivated by control, humiliation, and financial exploitation; (2) barriers to reporting shaped by shame, stigma, and widespread mistrust in police institutions; (3) legal barriers related to financial inaccessibility and fragmented, outdated legal frameworks; (4) the central role of informal support networks alongside calls for education and public awareness; and (5) deepfake technologies as an emergent form of economic exploitation, particularly impacting sex workers within a legal vacuum. The findings highlight the need for structurally informed, context-sensitive responses to IBSA that address the intersections of gender, law, technology, and economic vulnerability.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) negatively impacts individuals' physical and mental health. Negative parenting in adolescence predicts future IPV. Peer relationships also predict future IPV, due to peer socialization of harmful relationship norms. However, much less is known about protective factors for IPV. One potential protective factor is peer prosocial socialization. Thus, the proposed study investigates whether negative maternal parenting during adolescence predicts adulthood IPV, and the moderation of adolescent peer prosocial socialization. The sample consists of 371 individuals (T1 M age = 16.98 years, SD = 0.76; T2 M age = 28.99 years, SD = 0.81; 48.2% White, 29.9% Black, 9.7% Latino, 10.5% other). A latent moderated structural equation model revealed negative maternal parenting did not significantly predict IPV in adulthood, and no significant interaction was found between negative maternal parenting and prosocial peers. Prosocial peer socialization directly predicted IPV, indicating peer socialization of prosocial behaviors in adolescence was associated with lower IPV in adulthood. Findings emphasize the importance of peer relationships and socialization of prosocial norms in reducing adult IPV involvement.
{"title":"A Longitudinal Investigation on the Role of Negative Maternal Parenting on Intimate Partner Violence and the Protective Potential of Prosocial Peer Socialization.","authors":"Olivia Maras,Thao Ha,Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant,Kevin Grimm","doi":"10.1177/08862605251411879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251411879","url":null,"abstract":"Intimate partner violence (IPV) negatively impacts individuals' physical and mental health. Negative parenting in adolescence predicts future IPV. Peer relationships also predict future IPV, due to peer socialization of harmful relationship norms. However, much less is known about protective factors for IPV. One potential protective factor is peer prosocial socialization. Thus, the proposed study investigates whether negative maternal parenting during adolescence predicts adulthood IPV, and the moderation of adolescent peer prosocial socialization. The sample consists of 371 individuals (T1 M age = 16.98 years, SD = 0.76; T2 M age = 28.99 years, SD = 0.81; 48.2% White, 29.9% Black, 9.7% Latino, 10.5% other). A latent moderated structural equation model revealed negative maternal parenting did not significantly predict IPV in adulthood, and no significant interaction was found between negative maternal parenting and prosocial peers. Prosocial peer socialization directly predicted IPV, indicating peer socialization of prosocial behaviors in adolescence was associated with lower IPV in adulthood. Findings emphasize the importance of peer relationships and socialization of prosocial norms in reducing adult IPV involvement.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"16 1","pages":"8862605251411879"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145994999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-18DOI: 10.1177/08862605251411903
Joanne Neille
People with disabilities are vulnerable to violence, and while research has shed light on the financial, health, social, and psychological manifestations of violence, little is known about how it manifests in the lives of people with disabilities, especially those living in low- and middle-income contexts or those with cognitive-communication impairments. By applying Butler's theory of corporeal vulnerability, this article explores the relationship between disability, vulnerability, and gender-based violence (GBV). Data from three qualitative studies were re-analyzed, exploring the manifestation of GBV in the lives of adults with disabilities living in two South African provinces. Evidence of GBV emerged in 13 out of 65 transcripts. Participants ranged in age from 22 to 53 years, with 11 participants identifying as female and 2 as transgender. Data were analyzed thematically following Braun and Clarke's approach to inductive analysis. Three themes emerged, namely the diminishment of sexual agency and bodily autonomy; dependency and unequal power relations; and ableism and the politics of recognition. The findings illustrate how normative assumptions around sexuality, gender, and disability contribute to heightened vulnerability, compounded by poverty, institutional inaccessibility, and limited access to education and justice. Participants' narratives reveal how dependency is often exploited and how social systems fail to recognize or respond to their experiences of harm, thus perpetuating embodied precarity and vulnerability. This paper reframes vulnerability not as an individual deficit but as a socially produced and unequally distributed condition. The study calls for disability-inclusive GBV prevention strategies, accessible reporting mechanisms, and inclusive sexuality education. It also emphasizes the need to foreground the voices of people with disabilities in research and in the development of policies.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-11DOI: 10.1177/08862605251408135
Ella Kuskoff,Helen Mols,Cameron Parsell
Across the Western world, support for bystander intervention in intimate partner violence (IPV) is enshrined within government policies, fostering the expectation that community members have a moral obligation to intervene to disrupt and prevent IPV. However, IPV situations are often highly complex, and research demonstrates that there are significant risks that prevent victims from seeking help. Research also shows that victims exercise great care and agency in deciding which risks they are, or are not, willing to take. Critically, there is limited understanding of if and how the risks that prevent victims from help-seeking persist-or, indeed, are exacerbated-when a bystander subverts a victim's agency to intervene on their behalf. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with IPV victims and service providers, this paper examines victims' firsthand experiences of bystander intervention, with a particular focus on their perceptions of risk and their sense of agency in managing their own safety. We found that bystanders' active interventions sometimes led victims to make decisions or take actions that they were not yet ready to take, and often increased the sense of risk victims were feeling. Victims then took responsibility for managing this increased risk, which added to the already heavy burden they were carrying in trying to keep themselves and their children safe. Our findings point to the critical need for more evidence to build a robust understanding of the contexts and complexities that contribute to a bystander's intervention being experienced as helpful or harmful, and this evidence must be directly informed by victims themselves.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-11DOI: 10.1177/08862605251408131
Patricia A Ferreira,Twila Wingrove,Evelyn M Maeder
Male versus female rape complainants are typically perceived as less credible. This study sought to (a) examine whether medical forensic expert testimony can moderate this bias; (b) retest complainant gender effects on verdict; and (c) assess gender role attitudes as a moderator of the effect of complainant and forensic nurse gender on credibility. For Objective (a), we tested competing hypotheses. Gender-role congruency research predicts that female nurses will increase the credibility of and convictions for all complainants. Conversely, nursing and self-disclosure research suggests that such outcomes will occur when the complainant is examined by a same-gender nurse. For Objective (b), we predicted that mock jurors would assign fewer convictions for the male complainant. For Objective (c), we predicted that mock jurors with stronger versus weaker gender role attitudes would perceive male complainants and forensic nurses as less credible. Prolific users (N = 773) read a rape trial summary with complainant and nurse gender manipulated between subjects. We measured verdict, complainant and nurse credibilities, and gender role attitudes. Replicating prior work, mock jurors judged the male complainant as less credible. Contrary to past research, fewer convictions were assigned to the defendant when the complainant was male. Despite these findings, mock jurors' perceptions of the forensic nurse testimony were not affected by the complainant's gender. Nurse gender and gender role attitudes failed to moderate any effects. Results suggest that gender bias did not affect perceptions of evidence presented by the nurse despite affecting verdict decisions, illustrating that extralegal factors may influence verdicts even when they do not affect how trial evidence is perceived. Findings also tentatively suggest that jurors are not significantly affected by forensic nurse gender. Practical and policy implications are discussed.
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