Qian Zhao, Jingfei Tang, Xiangmin Tan, Yuxian Huang, Nan Hua, Jiayuan Peng, Yi Zeng, Yuqing He, Fanfan Cao, Ka Yan Ho, Mei Sun
{"title":"Intimate Partner Violence Among Postpartum Women in Low-Income Developing Rural Areas: A Cross-Sectional Study in China.","authors":"Qian Zhao, Jingfei Tang, Xiangmin Tan, Yuxian Huang, Nan Hua, Jiayuan Peng, Yi Zeng, Yuqing He, Fanfan Cao, Ka Yan Ho, Mei Sun","doi":"10.1177/08862605261473530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261473530","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intimate partner violence is a global issue with severe impacts on women's health, especially during pregnancy and postpartum. Living conditions for mothers in rural areas are characterized by transportation isolation, low literacy levels, lower economic status, limited access to healthcare, and social norms that condone violence. These specific cultural, social, and economic factors have contributed to the worsening of intimate partner violence in rural areas. However, the current situation of intimate partner violence among women during pregnancy and the postpartum in low-income rural areas of China remains insufficiently explored. To examine the prevalence and factors influencing intimate partner violence among women during pregnancy and postpartum in low-income rural areas of China. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a set of general questionnaires covering demographic, obstetric/pediatric, and psychosocial characteristics, together with two validated instruments, namely the Abuse Assessment Screen for intimate partner violence and the Social Support Rating Scale for social support. Among 467 women, 82 (17.6%) experienced intimate partner violence during pregnancy and postpartum, including 74 (15.8%) emotional, 15 (3.2%) physical, and 20 (4.3%) sexual violence cases. Additionally, 2.1% of the participants experienced all three types of violence. Receiving care from partners or their families and social support were protective factors, while the number of pregnancies, partner alcohol abuse during pregnancy, negative life events, and supportive attitudes toward intimate partner violence were risk factors. The findings indicate that targeted interventions and educational efforts should focus on altering sociocultural perceptions and behavioral patterns, particularly the attitudes of partners and family members. Future research should thoroughly investigate the long-term effects of various forms of support (e.g., emotional, financial) and the support systems aimed at addressing the specific socio-economic and cultural challenges faced by rural mothers.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261473530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149075052","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}
Jusuk Song, Dasom Han, Chanhoon Park, Sondra Smith-Adcock, Laura Shannonhouse
{"title":"Influence of Positive Childhood Experiences Profiles on Bullying Victimization and Perpetration in Youth: A Latent Class Analysis.","authors":"Jusuk Song, Dasom Han, Chanhoon Park, Sondra Smith-Adcock, Laura Shannonhouse","doi":"10.1177/08862605261473552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261473552","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bullying has enduring negative effects on development in adolescents. While research has focused on reducing risk factors such as adverse childhood experiences for bullying, growing evidence highlights the protective role of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) in fostering resilience and preventing bullying. However, little is known about how combinations of PCEs within the social-ecological context influence bullying. The researchers aimed to (a) identify patterns of PCEs, (b) examine demographic factors associated with these patterns, and (c) investigate how different PCEs patterns relate to bullying victimization and perpetration. Data were drawn from the 2022 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), a nationally representative survey of U.S. children's well-being. The final sample included 17,157 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. This cross-sectional study used a three-step approach for latent class analysis to identify latent PCEs profiles and to examine their demographic predictors and associations with bullying behaviors. The study results identified three PCEs profiles: resilient and supported (RS; high across all indicators), supported and low engagement (SLE; high in most indicators but low in social engagement), and vulnerable and unsupported (VU; low across all indicators). Family- and individual-level factors served as significant predictors of membership in the three PCEs profiles. Both SLE and VU groups reported higher bullying victimization and perpetration than RS, with VU showing the highest levels. The current findings suggest that bullying prevention strategies should extend beyond individual and school-based efforts to include community-level approaches and to coordinate school-family-community partnerships that strengthen protective experiences and address persistent inequities in access to PCEs among adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261473552"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149061953","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}
Umut Solmaz, Orhan Koçak, Ceren Akar, Beyza Nur Yildiz
{"title":"Empathy and Violence Tendency: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Intelligence and Masculine Behaviour.","authors":"Umut Solmaz, Orhan Koçak, Ceren Akar, Beyza Nur Yildiz","doi":"10.1177/08862605261476692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261476692","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Violence represents a significant psychosocial problem affecting both individuals and societies. This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between empathy and violence tendency and investigated the mediating roles of emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, and masculine behaviour dimensions in this relationship within the sociocultural context of Türkiye. Data were collected from 703 individuals aged 18 and over through an online questionnaire between October and December 2024 and analysed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. The findings indicated that empathy was negatively associated with violence tendency and positively related to emotional intelligence and emotional regulation. Emotional regulation demonstrated a significant negative relationship with violence tendency, whereas selected masculine behaviour dimensions, particularly independent lifestyle/exaggerated self-confidence and control, were positively associated with violence tendency. The proposed model explained 29% of the variance in violence tendency, highlighting the role of emotional and sociocultural behavioural factors. By examining empathy, emotional competencies, and selected masculine-coded behavioural dimensions together in the Turkish context, this study contributes to the literature by showing that individual emotional capacities and control-oriented behavioural tendencies may have distinct associations with violence tendency.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261476692"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149061917","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}
Samuel M Freeze, Lara Geermann, Madison F E Almond, Kevin S Douglas
{"title":"Weapon Reference in Threats of Violence: Associations With Risk Factors, Warning Behaviors, and Violent Outcomes.","authors":"Samuel M Freeze, Lara Geermann, Madison F E Almond, Kevin S Douglas","doi":"10.1177/08862605261485299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261485299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Weapon-related factors are often considered especially concerning in threat assessment, as weapons can facilitate severe violence. However, weapon reference in threatening communications has received limited empirical attention. The present study examined (a) risk factors and warning behaviors associated with weapon reference, (b) whether weapon reference predicts violent outcomes, and (c) whether threats that reference weapons are more credible than threats that do not reference weapons. Participants were North American adults (<i>N</i> = 257) who self-reported making an explicit threat of violence and completed measures assessing threat characteristics, violence risk factors, warning behaviors, and subsequent violent outcomes. Descriptive statistics, chi-square analyses, and logistic regression models were used to examine associations between weapon reference, related factors, and violent outcomes. Weapon reference was associated with a broad range of risk factors and warning behaviors for violence including substance use, gang involvement, violent attitudes, planning, novel aggression, and weapon availability. Results also indicated that weapon reference was associated with significantly greater odds of subsequent violence, although there was often a discrepancy between the details of the threat and the violence that ultimately occurred. These findings support the consideration of weapon reference as an important risk factor and an impetus for further information gathering given its association with other risk factors and violent outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261485299"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149030722","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}
{"title":"Reactions to Trauma Over Time: Trajectories of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Survivors of Violent Crime.","authors":"Tobi J Matzek, Christophe A Fortin, Stéphane Guay","doi":"10.1177/08862605261485220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261485220","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although experiencing crime is a common source of trauma, it remains unclear how the impact of violent crime translates into trajectories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following treatment. The purpose of the present study was to identify the proportion of survivors of violent crime whose PTSD symptoms remained clinically significant over time and assess their characteristics to inform treatment. The first objective of this study was to determine the trajectories of PTSD symptoms in survivors of violent crime. The second objective was to assess the demographic, trauma-related and psychological risk factors that characterise the trajectories of PTSD symptoms. One hundred eighty-six survivors of violent crime were recruited at a trauma study centre and assigned to either a cognitive behavioural therapy treatment or control group. The participants' PTSD symptoms were measured within 2 weeks, 2 months and 6 months after their traumatic event. Group-based trajectory modelling was carried out to determine the development of PTSD symptoms over time. Three trajectories were found. A low initial symptoms trajectory with moderate improvement (34.9%), one with high initial symptoms that showed significant improvement (44.6%), and one with high initial symptoms that showed no improvement (20.5%). Trajectories were associated with demographic and psychological risk factors; these included comorbid anxiety and unemployment. The participants' PTSD symptoms followed three distinct trajectories, and trajectory membership was most strongly linked to comorbid psychological conditions and socioeconomic indicators.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261485220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149030725","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}
Marie-Theresa Kaufmann, Noemi Preisendanz, Jörg M Fegert, Vera Clemens
{"title":"A Comprehensive View of Sexual Harassment and Discrimination on Perpetrations, Perpetrators, and Places in a Large German University Student Sample: Implications for a Safe Learning Environment.","authors":"Marie-Theresa Kaufmann, Noemi Preisendanz, Jörg M Fegert, Vera Clemens","doi":"10.1177/08862605261473551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261473551","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Universities are central to education, but they are also places where discrimination and sexual harassment are prevalent. However, studies on discrimination, including sexual harassment, tend to focus on specific forms of experiences, places, or perpetrators, providing only a fragmented view of the problem. This study takes an integrative approach, aiming to analyze the patterns of perpetration, perpetrators, and places of discrimination and sexual harassment as one frequent form of discrimination. Between April and July 2023, a total of 1,358 students (14% response rate) completed an online survey for the investigation of discrimination and sexual harassment. Latent class analysis was applied to identify similar classes in terms of patterns of perpetration, perpetrators, and places of discrimination and sexual harassment. Cross-tabulations were used to measure class differences for risk assessment. A 3-class solution was found for both discrimination (class 1 'gender discrimination by faculty member in lectures', class 2 'discriminated in terms of gender, nationality, and political opinion by fellow students in the public and educational context', and class 3 'multiple affected by fellow students and teachers in public and educational context') and sexual harassment (class 1 'sexual harassment in terms of offensive comments by teachers in lectures', class 2 'sexual harassment in terms of starring and physical contact by fellow students in the public and educational context', and class 3 'multiple affected by fellow students in the public and educational context'). Significant class differences were found in the risk analyses. This study highlights the importance of specific measures for the private students' lives and the academic settings in which students and teachers interact. These measures differ in terms of perpetrators and patterns of perpetration and are linked to specific places of occurrence.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261473551"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149024177","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}
{"title":"Disputes Between the Mapuche People’s Memories and Official Memories About Violence and State Terrorism in Chile (2008–2025)","authors":"Ximena Faúndez Abarca, Omar Sagredo Mazuela, Fuad Hatibovic Díaz, Yanis Veloz González, Tamara Ponce Herrera","doi":"10.1177/08862605261478124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261478124","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the disputes between the Chilean State’s official memory and Mapuche collective memories regarding violence and State terrorism during the post-dictatorship period (2008–2025) in the Biobío and La Araucanía regions. Drawing on a post/decolonial approach and the notion of “long memories,” it addresses State violence as a form of structural, political, and interpersonal/collective violence, whose expressions directly impact communities, families, and social bonds. Methodologically, the research combines critical discourse analysis of 108 news articles from La Tercera and El Mercurio with 45 life histories and 6 focus groups conducted with 95 Mapuche participants, analyzed through thematic analysis. Triangulation revealed three key axes of dispute: (a) hegemonic representations framing the Mapuche people as an “internal enemy” and legitimizing repression; (b) media-State legitimation of militarization, experienced as structural violence and the continuity of internal colonialism; and (c) narratives surrounding the killings of Mapuche community members that criminalize victims and silence State responsibility. The study concludes that official memory operates as a power device that erases and delegitimizes Mapuche agency, while subaltern memories act as epistemic resistance. It proposes expanding transitional justice frameworks to include indigenous memories and critically examining the media’s role in reproducing narratives that legitimize State violence as a form of interpersonal and collective violence.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993739","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}
Karla Santos Mateus, Emerson Do Bú, Rui Costa-Lopes, Francisca Ádila Dos Santos, Estela Mirian Lima da Silva, Cicero Roberto Pereira
{"title":"The Prejudice-Based Secondary Victimization of Violence Against Gay Men.","authors":"Karla Santos Mateus, Emerson Do Bú, Rui Costa-Lopes, Francisca Ádila Dos Santos, Estela Mirian Lima da Silva, Cicero Roberto Pereira","doi":"10.1177/08862605261476698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261476698","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gay men frequently face targeted violence and subsequent secondary victimization-additional harm through negative social reactions such as minimizing their suffering, blaming them, or withholding support. While homophobic prejudice and the belief in a just world (BJW)-the motivation to see the world as fair and to believe that people get what they deserve-are each linked to victim derogation, their joint role in secondary victimization remains unclear. Across two studies, this research aimed to address this gap examining whether prejudice or BJW plays a more significant role in the secondary victimization of gay men and how these factors interact to reinforce victim-blaming attitudes. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 102), participants read a news vignette about an assault; we manipulated perceived sexual orientation (gay vs. no-cue control) via contextual cues. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 205), no cues were provided, and participants inferred the victim's sexual orientation. Secondary victimization was assessed across three dimensions (minimization of the victim's suffering, victim-blaming, and social avoidance) of a self-report measure, and prejudice was measured with a validated self-report scale indexing discomfort with gay men in everyday situations. Results showed that prejudice predicted greater minimization of suffering and victim-blaming when the victim was perceived as gay. Moreover, BJW strengthened the prejudice-minimization link when participants perceived the victim as a gay man. These findings demonstrate how prejudice and BJW jointly contribute to rationalizing harm toward gay men, reframing unjust suffering as deserved within a perceived fair world. By highlighting this interaction, our findings advance theories of legitimation and reveal how justice motives can paradoxically reinforce prejudice, subtly validating discriminatory attitudes while maintaining a veneer of fairness.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261476698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148976947","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}
Samantha C Holmes, Alejandra Gonzalez, Erica E Temes, Amani Joseph, Dawn M Johnson
{"title":"Clarifying the Protective Role of Empowerment Against Weight/Shape Concerns Among Black and White Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and are Residing in Shelter.","authors":"Samantha C Holmes, Alejandra Gonzalez, Erica E Temes, Amani Joseph, Dawn M Johnson","doi":"10.1177/08862605261463260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261463260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women who have experienced intimate partner violence (W-IPV) exhibit relatively high levels of disordered eating (DE). Empowerment has been demonstrated to be a protective factor against negative mental health outcomes for W-IPV, but has not been studied, with respect to DE, in this population. Race is an important construct to understanding both empowerment and DE - Black women reliably demonstrate higher levels of empowerment and lower levels of weight/shape concerns (a core symptom of and risk factor for DE) than White women. Additionally, social support has been identified as a factor promoting empowerment among W-IPV, whereas posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms have been associated with DE. This study tested the associations among race, social support, empowerment, PTSD symptoms, and weight/shape concerns among W-IPV (<i>N</i> = 179; 55% Black and 45% White) residing in shelter. Empowerment was negatively correlated with weight/shape concerns for the full sample. Black W-IPV demonstrated higher levels of empowerment and lower levels of weight/shape concerns - there were no race differences on either social support or PTSD symptoms. Additionally, there was a significant indirect effect of race on weight/shape concerns via empowerment and PTSD symptoms, serially. Black W-IPV reported higher levels of empowerment than White W-IPV, which, in turn, was associated with lower levels of PTSD symptoms, which, finally, was associated with lower levels of weight/shape concerns. The current results suggest that empowerment may be protective against weight/shape concerns for W-IPV and may also help explain race differences in this construct. Providers who work with W-IPV should engage in practices that reinforce this culturally relevant protective factor for Black W-IPV. Additionally, future studies should attempt to replicate the current findings using a prospective longitudinal design and, if replicated, researchers should test the application of empowerment-based interventions to weight/shape concerns among W-IPV.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261463260"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148976965","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}
{"title":"Corporal Punishment and Socioemotional Adjustment: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Preschool Boys and Girls in Latin America.","authors":"Yaser Ramírez Benítez, Linda S Pagani","doi":"10.1177/08862605261478655","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08862605261478655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Corporal and psychological punishment toward children typically emerges from bidirectional, escalating, and coercive parent-child interactions. These parenting dynamics have been understudied in Latin America, where associations with child emotional development have been found to be significant. This study addressed three questions in a sample of 18,269 typically developing boys and girls, aged 3 to 4 years, from 10 Latin American countries (UNICEF MICS data 2019-2024), regarding corporal punishment (hitting with hand/belt/object or with maximum force, shaking) and psychological punishment (yelling and insulting): (a) Which children, based on their socioemotional adjustment, are at greater risk of receiving corporal punishment? (b) How robust are these associations to unmeasured confounding factors? (c) What contextual factors moderate this relationship? Boys and girls with externalizing behaviors (e.g., hitting others) were more likely to receive punishment. However, associations were significant in only 7 of 10 countries and showed moderate robustness to confounding (<i>E</i>-values: 1.08-1.37). In pooled analyses across all countries, boys showed more consistent negative associations with prosocial behavior. However, substantial cross‑country heterogeneity emerged, and girls exhibited significant associations in several national contexts, sometimes with effect sizes exceeding those for boys. Key protective factors attenuated negative associations: early childhood education attendance, higher maternal education, and greater household wealth. Additionally, three vulnerabilities emerged in the region: 29% poverty, 83% low maternal education, and 43% no early childhood education attendance. The coercion cycle was evidenced among preschool-aged children across Latin America, although with substantial national variation. Effective interventions must extend beyond legal prohibitions. Context‑sensitive public policies that strengthen protective early education and economic resources and implement culturally adapted parenting programs to interrupt coercive cycles, particularly in high‑risk environments for preschool children, are warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261478655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148977014","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}