Dryburgh Nicole S J, Martin-Storey Alexa, Craig Wendy M, Holfeld Brett, Dirks Melanie A
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
J Interpers Violence. 2025 Apr;40(7-8):1800-1823. doi: 10.1177/08862605241265418. Epub 2024 Oct 3.
Although friendship is a key source of support and intimacy for adolescents, adolescent friendships can also involve victimization, which can be harmful to youth well-being. To date, our understanding of victimization in friendship has been limited by a lack of measures that comprehensively capture the variety of negative behaviors occurring in this relationship. This study outlines the development and preliminary validation of the Friendship Victimization Scale for Adolescents (FVS-A), which assesses victimization and controlling behaviors in adolescent friendships. Adolescents ( = 706, = 15.93, = 1.67; 62.3% cisgender girls, 33.7% cisgender boys) from high schools in Canada completed the FVS-A and other measures in the fall of 2019. The factor structure and psychometric properties of the measure were examined. The FVS-A demonstrated excellent internal consistency and a 3-factor structure (relational victimization, physical/verbal victimization, controlling behavior). There was evidence for demographic differences such that cisgender girls reported more overall friendship victimization, as well as relational victimization and control, than did cisgender boys. Greater friendship victimization was associated with greater dating victimization and gender-based bullying and was uniquely associated with greater depressive symptoms after accounting for these other types of victimization. Findings suggest that friendship victimization is common among adolescents. The results provide evidence for the utility of the FVS-A as a measure of an understudied source of interpersonal risk. Future work is needed to understand the long-term implications of friendship victimization and to elucidate the temporal associations between friendship victimization and other indicators of psychosocial adjustment.
尽管友谊是青少年获得支持和亲密感的关键来源，但青少年友谊也可能涉及受害情况，这可能对青少年的幸福有害。迄今为止，我们对友谊中受害情况的理解因缺乏能够全面捕捉这种关系中发生的各种负面行为的测量方法而受到限制。本研究概述了青少年友谊受害量表（FVS-A）的开发和初步验证，该量表评估青少年友谊中的受害和控制行为。来自加拿大高中的青少年（n = 706，M = 15.93，SD = 1.67；62.3% 顺性别女孩，33.7% 顺性别男孩）在2019年秋季完成了FVS-A和其他测量。对该测量的因素结构和心理测量特性进行了检验。FVS-A表现出出色的内部一致性和三因素结构（关系性受害、身体/言语受害、控制行为）。有证据表明存在人口统计学差异，即顺性别女孩报告的总体友谊受害情况以及关系性受害和控制情况比顺性别男孩更多。更大程度的友谊受害与更大程度的约会受害和基于性别的欺凌相关，并且在考虑了这些其他类型的受害情况后，与更严重的抑郁症状独特相关。研究结果表明，友谊受害在青少年中很常见。结果为FVS-A作为一种衡量人际风险的未充分研究来源的工具的效用提供了证据。未来需要开展工作以了解友谊受害的长期影响，并阐明友谊受害与心理社会适应的其他指标之间的时间关联。
