Discontinuities in Intimate Partner Violence Across a Decade

• In Event: Intimate Partner Violence Theory and Typologies

Abstract

Prior focusing on continuity and discontinuity in IPV involvement has been restricted to two time periods, typically adolescence and young adulthood. Most previous research has considered a limited set of relationships and a single form of IPV involvement, most frequently, victimization. Yet this work ignores the high degree of turnover in romantic partners across adolescence and young adulthood. Using five waves of data collected from adolescence into young adulthood (n=1,243), the current study examines patterns of IPV involvement in a maximum of 11 relationships spanning a decade (2001 – 2012). Our preliminary findings show that while more than half (59%) of the sample report at last one incidence of IPV, relatively few respondents (1.5%) experience IPV in all their relationships. We examine patterns and types of IPV experience across relationships such as changes in the directionality of violence (victimization only, perpetration only, or bidirectional). Further, we consider shifts in IPV experience within relationships. This study offers a new way of conceptualizing IPV relationship experiences.

Authors

• Wendi L. Johnson, Bowling Green State University

• Wendy D. Manning, Bowling Green State University

• Peggy C. Giordano, Bowling Green State University

• Monica A. Longmore, Bowling Green State University