A history of maltreatment can increase risk for dating violence (DV) and risky sexual behaviour (RSB) among adolescents. Secure parent-child attachment may reduce this risk, yet few studies have examined this as a protective factor. This study differentiated developmentally appropriate, exploratory sexual behaviours from RSB and examined whether maltreatment experiences and parent-child attachment in adolescence predicted DV and RSB reported five years later in a high-risk sample. Participants were 179 adolescents (46% girls; M_age = 15.34, range = 12–18 years) at risk for aggressive and antisocial behaviour. Adolescents reported their maltreatment histories and attachment to their parents at Time 1; five years later, at Time 2, they reported their experiences with DV perpetration and victimization and engagement in RSB. Both bivariate correlations and structural analyses demonstrated that maltreatment was associated with DV perpetration and victimization but not RSB, and attachment avoidance was associated with fewer RSB but not DV. Attachment anxiety was associated with physical DV perpetration and greater condom use, but only at the correlational level; attachment anxiety was not associated with DV or RSB in the structural model. There were no significant interaction effects. Findings highlight the importance of considering key developmental factors such as maltreatment and parent-child attachment in understanding adolescent risk for DV and RSB, and may inform future research that accounts for contextual factors such as motivation for violence perpetration and contraceptive use with multiple and/or casual sex partners.

虐待史会增加青少年约会暴力 (DV) 和危险性行为 (RSB) 的风险。安全的亲子依恋可能会降低这种风险，但很少有研究将其作为保护因素进行检验。这项研究将适合发育的探索性性行为与 RSB 区分开来，并研究了青春期的虐待经历和亲子依恋是否可以预测五年后在高风险样本中报告的 DV 和 RSB。参与者为 179 名有攻击性和反社会行为风险的青少年（46% 为女孩；M_年龄= 15.34，范围 = 12-18 岁）。青少年在时间 1 报告了他们的虐待历史和对父母的依恋；五年后，在时间 2，他们报告了自己遭受家庭暴力、受害以及参与 RSB 的经历。双变量相关性和结构分析都表明，虐待与家庭暴力的实施和受害有关，但与 RSB 无关，而回避依恋与较少的 RSB 相关，但与 DV 无关。依恋焦虑与身体 DV 实施和更多安全套使用有关，但仅在相关水平上；在结构模型中，依恋焦虑与 DV 或 RSB 无关。没有显着的交互作用。研究结果强调了在了解青少年 DV 和 RSB 风险时考虑虐待和亲子依恋等关键发展因素的重要性，并可能为未来的研究提供信息，以解释暴力犯罪动机和多重和/或多重避孕措施的使用等背景因素。随意的性伴侣。