Using data from the Add Health, the authors consider whether male high school sport participation had an association with intimate partner violence perpetration into adulthood, controlling for other known predictors. Results show that sport participation is associated with a reduced risk of perpetrating intimate partner violence in adulthood, which the authors interpret as generally supportive of the deterrence hypothesis, the notion that playing sport promotes prosocial values, increases supervision, and increases bonding to conventional institutions that lower the risk of engaging in violent behavior against women. However, the inclusion of measures representing this hypothesis failed to attenuate the sport participation–intimate partner violence association, raising questions about whether the deterrence hypothesis is the appropriate explanation.

作者使用来自Add Health的数据，研究了男性高中体育活动的参与是否与伴侣成年后的亲密暴力行为有关，从而控制了其他已知的预测因素。结果表明，体育运动与成年后发生亲密伴侣暴力的风险降低有关，作者认为这普遍支持威慑假说，即体育运动可以促进亲社会价值，增加监管并增加与传统机构的联系，这一观念是威慑假说的。降低对妇女进行暴力行为的风险。但是，包含代表该假设的量度并不能减弱运动参与-亲密伴侣暴力协会，