Objective There are concerns about the measurement of teen dating violence (TDV) perpetration. The current study compares data on TDV perpetration derived from a cumulative assessment procedure and a single assessment procedure. The prevalence and frequency of TDV perpetration are examined, as well as their associations with hypothesized precursors of TDV. Method A sample of court-referred adolescents (n = 147, Mage = 15.85) completed a baseline assessment that included measures of three hypothesized precursors to TDV: externalizing problems, exposure to community violence, and attitudes about dating violence. For the cumulative assessment procedure, adolescents then completed up to 6 phone interviews on their TDV perpetration (physical, sexual, and emotional), once every 2 weeks over the course of a 3-month period. Data from these interviews were aggregated to form a cumulative measure of TDV perpetration over the 3 months. For the single assessment procedure, adolescents completed an identical interview on their TDV perpetration in a lab assessment 3 months after baseline, but were asked about perpetration over the entire 3 months. Results Results of within-subjects comparisons indicated that, compared to the single assessment procedure, the cumulative assessment procedure yielded higher prevalence and greater frequency of physical, sexual, and emotional TDV. Across analytic methods, all types of TDV perpetration were more strongly related to externalizing problems, and sexual TDV perpetration was more strongly related to exposure to community violence, when measured cumulatively. Conclusions Cumulative assessment procedures might provide a more sensitive and valid measurement of TDV perpetration than single assessment procedures.

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衡量青少年约会暴力行为：累积评估程序和单一评估程序的比较。

目的 人们对青少年约会暴力 (TDV) 实施情况的衡量表示担忧。当前的研究比较了累积评估程序和单一评估程序得出的 TDV 实施数据。研究了 TDV 的流行率和频率，以及它们与假设的 TDV 前体的关联。方法 法庭转介的青少年样本（n = 147，Mage = 15.85）完成了基线评估，其中包括对 TDV 的三个假设前兆的测量：外化问题、接触社区暴力以及对约会暴力的态度。在累积评估程序中，青少年随后完成最多 6 次有关 TDV 行为（身体、性和情感）的电话访谈，在 3 个月的时间内每两周一次。这些访谈的数据经过汇总，形成了 3 个月内 TDV 实施情况的累积衡量标准。对于单一评估程序，青少年在基线后 3 个月的实验室评估中完成了关于 TDV 犯罪行为的相同访谈，但被问及整个 3 个月内的犯罪行为。结果 受试者内部比较结果表明，与单一评估程序相比，累积评估程序产生的身体、性和情感 TDV 的患病率和频率更高。在各种分析方法中，当累积测量时，所有类型的 TDV 犯罪都与外在问题更密切相关，性 TDV 犯罪与社区暴力暴露更密切相关。