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Manning, K, 2024. Addressing coercive control in adolescent intimate relationships. DPsych, Nottingham Trent University.
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Coercive control is a form of abuse that is still not well understood within adult populations. Even less is known about how and why it manifests in adolescent relationships. The limited evidence base means that we have insufficient knowledge to develop reliable theories about adolescent coercive control, which might otherwise inform the design and delivery of adolescent dating abuse (ADA) prevention programmes. However, despite the lack of theoretical knowledge (in relation to adolescent coercive control but also ADA more broadly) such programmes continue to feature as a key component of education in school and community settings across the world.
In the absence of a more robust evidence base to shape ADA interventions at the design stage, another way to determine what works is to undertake comprehensive evaluations of existing interventions. The findings could then be used to grow the existing literature and to direct further primary research into the potential causes and correlates of coercive control as a more nuanced form of adolescent dating abuse. This thesis offers an original contribution to the existing literature, achieved firstly by the author systemically reviewing ADA programme evaluation studies to determine whether coercive control is being adequately and appropriately targeted. The primary research subsequently presented in the thesis offers originality by investigating whether some of the variables already associated with a.) ADA more broadly and b.) adult coercive control are associated with adolescent coercive control.
From the systematic review undertaken, the author concludes that ADA programme evaluation studies are typically of low quality and that they provide very little in the way of a meaningful contribution to the existing literature. In the final sections of the thesis, the author calls for ADA programme evaluators to adopt a more comprehensive evaluation approach. The primary research undertaken identified gender and personality as key factors in explaining the adolescent perpetrator’s trajectory towards coercive control.
This thesis makes recommendations for research to grow the existing evidence base, facilitating the development of empirically derived theories to inform ADA prevention programme design and delivery. Suggestions for future directions are also offered, primarily in the form of a thorough, large-scale review of existing approaches to ADA prevention in schools and communities.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Creators: | Manning, K. |
| Contributors: | Name Role NTU ID ORCID |
| Date: | September 2024 |
| Rights: | This work is the intellectual property of the author. You may copy up to 5% of this work for private study or personal, non-commercial research. Any re-use of the information contained within this document should be fully referenced, quoting the author, title, university, degree level and pagination. Queries or requests for any other use, or if a more substantial copy is required, should be directed to the owner(s) of the Intellectual Property Rights. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Laura Borcherds |
| Date Added: | 03 Feb 2026 12:46 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2026 12:46 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/55170 |
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