Witnessing abuse makes teenage boys more likely to be violent, new research suggests, but progressive views on gender roles may change that
TORONTO -- Boys who are surrounded by abusive behaviour toward women and girls may be more likely to be violent in other areas of life, but progressive views on gender could dramatically decrease those odds.suggests that if a teenage boy sees one of his peers abusing a female, he is more likely to also act abusively toward females as well as partake in bullying and fighting.
Researchers surveyed 833 teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19. All of the teenagers lived in “lower resource” neighbourhoods in Pittsburgh. Seventy per cent of the teens identified as African-American and 21 per cent as Hispanic, multiracial or “other.” Teens who said they’d seen their peers engage in at least two of nine harmful behaviours, such as making disrespectful comments about a girl’s body, were two to five times more likely to have engaged in multiple violent behaviours.“This reinforces that pressure to conform to stereotypes about masculinity that perpetuate harmful behaviors toward women and girls also is associated with getting in a fight with another guy,” Miller said.
Of the teens who said they had dated, one in three said they had been abusive to someone they dated in the last nine months. More than half said they had been involved in sexual harassment, and 68 per cent said they’d been involved in physical fights or threatened or injured someone with a weapon.
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