Wekerle C., Wolfe D., Hawkins D., Pittman A-L., Glickman A. & Lovald B. (2001). Childhood maltreatment, posttraumatic stress symptomatology, and adolescent dating violence: Considering the value of adolescent perceptions of abuse and a trauma mediational model. Development and Psychopathology. 13(4):847-871. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579401004060
In samples of 1,329 high school students and 224 youth in child protective care, posttraumatic stress symptoms explained the link between childhood maltreatment and dating violence for girls but not for boys. Girls in care who labelled themselves as abused had more trauma symptoms and dating victimization than maltreated girls who didn’t, which points to the need to better understand how youth disclose and make sense of maltreatment.