Middle School Psychological Distress and Sexual Harassment Victimization as Predictors of Dating Violence Involvement.

ABSTRACT: Adolescent sexual harassment victimization is increasingly recognized as a strong risk factor for dating violence victimization and perpetration. Research on this association has focused on older adolescents and on sexual harassment at a single time point rather than chronic exposure. Furthermore, potential mechanisms, such as psychological distress, are not well understood. The goals of this study were to identify whether sexual harassment victimization and psychological distress were reciprocally related, whether chronic psychological distress and sexual harassment victimization in early adolescence were associated with higher levels of dating violence involvement measured in mid-adolescence, and whether these relationships differed between boys and girls. We used longitudinal data from

SUBMITTER: Murchison GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10692829 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature