1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine if adolescents’ internalizing symptoms predict subsequent victimization or perpetration, and similarly, if victimization or perpetration predict subsequent internalizing symptoms.» (p. 6)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
This study was part of the QLSCF [Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development], «a large, ongoing, population-based birth cohort managed by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec (Québec Institute of Statistics; ISQ) in Canada. The cohort consists of 2,120 infants born in 1997/1998 and followed until now […].» (p. 3) «Analyses [of this study] were based on 974 participants who had dating violence (victimization or perpetration) and internalizing symptoms data at ages 15 and 17 years (46% of the initial of n = 2,120).» (p. 6)

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«The results showed that for both males and females, adolescents’ internalizing symptoms at age 15 years predicted victimization and perpetration 2 years later. There were unique predictive effects of internalizing symptoms on later physical, psychological, and sexual victimization and physical and psychological perpetration.» (p. 6) «Importantly, these associations remained after accounting for the stability of the internalizing symptoms and dating violence, together with parent, child, peer, and family-level factors which could increase risk for both victimization or perpetration and internalizing symptoms.» (p. 7) Finally, results show that «girls are more likely to perpetrate both physical and psychological dating violence and that victimization and perpetration co-exist among girls. As previously discussed, studies have found that victims and/or perpetrators of more than one type of dating violence can experience greater mental health difficulties […].» (p. 7)