Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration, Emotion Dysregulation, and Parenting Styles

A conceptual model was tested, separately for male and female adolescents, in which adolescent dating\r\nviolence (ADV) perpetration toward a romantic partner is affected by the memories of authoritarian\r\npaternal and maternal parenting styles through the mediation of adolescents’ emotion dysregulation. The\r\nsample consisted of 622 Italian adolescents (35.5% males; 64.5% females) aged 13 to 21 years.\r\nParticipants completed a questionnaire composed of three self-report scales: Parenting Styles and\r\nDimensions Questionnaire measuring adolescents’ memories of parenting styles; Conflict in Adolescent\r\nDating Relationships Inventory, measuring multiple forms of abusive behavior that may occur between\r\nadolescent dating partners; and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaire, measuring\r\nemotion regulation. For both male and female adolescents, there were significant indirect effects of the\r\nmemories of both maternal and paternal authoritarian styles on ADV perpetration that were mediated by\r\nthe adolescents’ impulse control difficulties.