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Boivin S, Lavoie F, Hébert M, Gagne MH. Can. J. Behav. Sci. 2014; 46(3): 427-435. |
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(Copyright © 2014, Canadian Psychological Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing) |
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Abstract |
Dating violence in adolescence represents a major societal problem and a health issue. It is therefore important to understand the context and factors associated with this problem. The experience of victimisation during childhood can lead to psychological consequences that increase in turn the risk of future victimisations, among others within couple relationships where the process of influence is little known. This model of mediation examined whether psychological distress and hostility influenced the associations between two forms of past victimizations (exposure to interparental violence, sexual harassment by peers) and physical or sexual dating violence victimization. The sample was composed of 751 girls and 508 boys aged between 14 and 19 years who had recently been in a dating relationship. They completed self-reported questionnaires in class. The results indicated that for girls, psychological distress acted as a partial mediator between sexual harassment and sustained sexual violence. For boys, past victimizations and hostility were associated with sustained physical violence, but no mediation analysis turned out to be significant. Future research and intervention avenues are discussed, in particular the neglected influence of sexual harassment for both girls and boys. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords |
Dating Violence; Distress; Hostility; Sexual Harassment; Social Dating; Victimization; Violence |