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 ( N = 706, Mage = 15.93, SD = 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.

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量化有毒的友谊：青少年友谊中受害程度的初步调查


尽管友谊是青少年支持和亲密关系的主要来源，但青少年友谊也可能涉及受害，这可能对青少年的福祉有害。迄今为止，我们对友谊中受害的理解一直受到限制，因为缺乏全面捕捉这种关系中发生的各种负面行为的措施。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，法师 = 15.93，SD = 1.67;62.3% 顺性别女孩，33.7% 顺性别男孩）于 2019 年秋季完成了 FVS-A 和其他措施。检查了该测量的因子结构和心理测量特性。FVS-A 表现出出色的内部一致性和 3 因素结构 （关系受害、身体/语言受害、控制行为）。有证据表明人口统计学差异，因此顺性别女孩比顺性别男孩报告了更多的总体友谊受害，以及关系受害和控制。更大的友谊受害与更大的约会受害和基于性别的欺凌有关，并且在考虑到这些其他类型的受害后与更大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 作为衡量人际风险研究不足来源的效用提供了证据。 需要未来的工作来了解友谊受害的长期影响，并阐明友谊受害与其他心理社会调整指标之间的时间关联。