title: Intergenerational Links in Victimization: Prosocial Friends as a Buffer.
abstract: This study investigated whether having friends who engaged in more prosocial than antisocial behaviors buffered the associations between family-of-origin aggression and later victimization. Adolescent participants (N=125) and their parents reported on different types of family aggression in early adolescence. Approximately 5 years later, adolescents reported on their victimization experiences with dating partners and friends, and their friends' prosocial and antisocial behaviors. Only father-to-child aggression was significantly associated with dating and friend victimization, with stronger risk for females' dating victimization. Moreover, having friends who engaged in more prosocial than antisocial behaviors had both a direct inverse relationship with dating partner victimization. This also buffered the risk for dating victimization associated with father-daughter aggression. Findings suggest that greater attention be paid to the father-daughter relationship and to the importance of having friends who engage in prosocial behaviors in the prevention of adolescents' victimization.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California.
authors.forename: Sohyun C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California.
authors.forename: Gayla
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Margolin
keywords: dating victimization; family aggression; father-daughter relationship; friend victimization; prosocial friends