The Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence

 描述（由申请人提供）：亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是青少年和年轻人中的一个重大公共卫生问题。大约三分之一的年轻人经历过亲密伴侣的某种形式的暴力。IPV有短期和长期的后果。处于暴力关系中的妇女意外怀孕和性传播感染的发生率更高，在暴力关系中怀孕的妇女更有可能死于分娩，在暴力关系中出生的儿童有更高的低出生体重率和婴儿死亡率。而且，一些研究表明，这些健康后果随着暴力的频率和严重程度的增加而增加。虽然最近有关于IPV的知识，方法和实质性的问题与过去的研究大大限制了我们的了解IPV，以及如何减少和防止它。特别是，我们知道IPV如何随着时间的推移而变化，特别是，什么样的个人和关系因素影响这些变化知之甚少。我们提出了新的研究，以调查年轻女性的亲密关系中的暴力行为的动态模式，并在何种程度上个人和关系因素影响这些动态模式。这样的调查需要详细的，动态的措施IPV和一套丰富的个人和关系的措施，也是动态的，随着时间的推移。大多数现有的数据资源在这方面存在根本性的缺陷。来自关系动态和社会生活（RDSL）研究的新可用的独特数据使这项研究成为可能，因为它们具有详细的每周暴力和怀孕措施，用于种族和社会经济多样化，人口代表性的年轻女性随机样本。该项目的具体目标是：（1）确定年轻妇女亲密关系中暴力的动态模式;（2）调查影响暴力动态模式的个人和关系因素。为了满足我们的研究的具体目标，我们提出了一项研究的基础上，从RDSL研究的现有数据的分析，基于1,003 18- 19岁的妇女在密歇根州的一个县的样本。在60分钟的面对面访谈之后，进行了为期2.5年的每周跟踪研究，内容涉及他们的关系经历（包括暴力）、性、避孕和怀孕。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem among adolescents and young adults. Approximately one-third of young people have experienced some form of violence by an intimate partner. There are short- and long-term consequences of IPV. Women in violent relationships experience higher rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, women who become pregnant in violent relationships are more likely to die in childbirth, and children born into violent relationships hae higher rates of low birth weight and infant mortality. And, some research suggests that these health consequences are greater as the frequency and severity of violence increase. Although there have recently been significant advances in knowledge about IPV, methodological and substantive problems with past research substantially limit our understanding of IPV and how to reduce and prevent it. In particular, we know little about how IPV changes over time, and in particular, what individual and relationship factors influence these changes. We propose new research to investigate the dynamic patterns of violence within young women's intimate relationships and the extent to which individual and relationship factors influence these dynamic patterns. Such an investigation requires detailed, dynamic measures of IPV and a rich set of individual and relationship measures that are also dynamic across time. Most available data resources suffer from fundamental weaknesses for this purpose. Newly available, unique data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study make this research possible because they feature detailed weekly measures of violence and pregnancy for a racially and socioeconomically diverse, population-representative random sample of young women. The specific aims of the project are to: (1) identify the dynamic patterns of violence within young women's intimate relationships and (2) investigate individual and relationship factors that influence the dynamic patterns of violence. To meet the specific aims of our research, we propose a study based on the analysis of existing data from the RDSL study, based on a sample of 1,003 18- and 19-year-old women in a Michigan county. Face-to-face, 60-minute interviews were followed by a 2.5 year journal-based weekly follow-up study about their relationship experiences (including violence), sex, contraception, and pregnancy.