Studying the extent to which
children are exposed to victimizing events is important to fully understand the
effect of such exposure in shaping them as adults. The aim of this study was to
use self-report by adolescents to measure the prevalence of victimizing events
and of poly-victimization.
A representative sample of 5,960 students (aged 17)
from high schools in Sweden was given the self-administrated version of the
Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) along with questions concerning
gender, birthplace, parents' birthplace and employment, residence, educational
program, and municipality size.
The results show that 84.1% (83.0% young men
and 85.2% young women) of the students had experienced victimization during
their lifetime, and 10.3% were categorized as poly-victims (8.1% young men and
12.5% young women).
Adolescents living with both parents were at lower risk of any form of
victimization for both genders, while females were at higher risk of
maltreatment, peer victimization, and, most significantly, sexual
victimization.
In conclusion, the vast majority of young people have been
victimized during their lifetime. A greater awareness of the impact of these
victimizing events on children and adolescents is important as a basis for
providing a safer milieu and establishing better interventions, especially for
those that have been victimized on multiple occasions. The high-exposure group
was determined by using ≥10 events as a cutoff. Findings on this group
corresponded with findings in other international studies regarding
distribution, elevated risk for females, and the possibility of limiting the
effects of victimization by modifying living conditions.
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By:
- 1Linköping University, Sweden nikolas.aho@liu.se.
- 2Linköping University, Sweden.
- J Interpers Violence. 2016 Feb;31(4):620-51. doi: 10.1177/0886260514556105. Epub 2014 Nov 11.
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