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This study aims to explore how different types of violence against children can impact patterns of dating violence among adolescents, factoring in gender and roles as victims or perpetrators.

July 5, 2026Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma0 citationsOpen Access

Relationship Between Violence Against Children and Dating Violence Patterns Among Brazilian Adolescents: A Latent Class Analysis

CMCláudia Leite de Moraes DFDaniela Porto Faus MRMichael Eduardo Reichenheim

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This study aims to explore how different types of violence against children can impact patterns of dating violence among adolescents, factoring in gender and roles as victims or perpetrators.
Cross-sectional design involving 550 high school students from thirteen schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Used the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) for detecting violence against children and the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI) for dating violence.
Applied Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to identify classes based on DV patterns, followed by multinomial regression to examine relationships between VAC and DV.
Among girls, childhood sexual abuse significantly increased the likelihood of severe DV victimization (OR: 5.72; 95% CI: 2.51–13.06).
For boys, childhood emotional abuse (OR: 1.65; 95% CI: 1.65 - 16.57) and physical abuse (OR: 2.66; 95% CI: 1.01 - 7.05) were linked to higher odds of DV perpetration.
Overall, the effects of childhood violence on DV varied by sex, type of violence, and role as victim or perpetrator.

Abstract

Abstract Studies examining the associations between violence against children (VAC) and patterns of adolescent dating violence (DV) perpetration and victimization using person-centered analytic approaches remain limited and have yielded inconsistent findings. This study addresses whether emotional, physical, and sexual violence against children (VAC) are risk factors for distinct patterns of adolescent dating violence (DV), considering adolescents’ gender and their roles as victims or perpetrators. This is a school based cross-sectional study that involved a stratified cluster sample of 550 s-year high school students from thirteen schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) was used to detect VAC, while DV was identified using the Brazilian version of the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI). Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify classes of individuals based on their response patterns to the CADRI items. Multinomial regression analysis examined the relationships between VAC and DV patterns. Among girls, no single type of VAC increased the odds of belonging to the most severe perpetration class of DV. However, childhood sexual abuse increased fivefold (OR: 5.72; 95% CI: 2.51–13.06) the likelihood of belonging to the most severe DV victimization class. Among boys, childhood emotional (OR: 1.65; 95% CI: 1.65 - 16.57) and physical abuse (OR: 2.66; 95% CI: 1.01 - 7.05) were associated with higher odds of DV perpetration. Emotional VAC increased boys’ likelihood of belonging to the poly-victimization class (OR: 5.97; 95% CI: 1.95 - 18.30). Childhood physical abuse also increased their likelihood of belonging to severe class by more than three-fold (OR: 3.60; 95% CI: 1.80–7.21). The effects of childhood victimization on adolescent DV differ by sex, type of childhood violence, and whether the adolescent is a perpetrator or victim. These findings underscore the need for sex-specific and trauma-informed strategies to prevent dating violence during adolescence.

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Moraes et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a49f68df5d1d45b28800da6 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-026-00939-7

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