Participants were 79 female adolescents with a mean age of 16.08 years (SD = 1.52) who were involved in the child welfare system. Participants self-reported frequency of witnessing IPV in childhood, ambivalent sexism, and acceptability of dating violence. A lexical-decision task assessed implicit relationship-to-harm priming, which reflects the degree to which people automatically assume that relationships include harm. Consistent with hypotheses, frequency of witnessing IPV was significantly associated with strength of implicit relationship-to-harm associations. Implicit relationship-to-harm associations and hostile sexism were significantly associated with girls' attitudes that dating violence is acceptable. There was a significant indirect effect of witnessing IPV and acceptability of dating violence through relationship-to-harm associations. This study produced information that is relevant to dating violence intervention among adolescent girls. Interventions that target girls' schema about relationshipsmaking explicit that healthy relationships do not involve harmand include education about sexism in society are likely to decrease dating violence risk over time. (Publisher abstract modified)
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