Although research has found
high rates of child maltreatment, widespread victimization, and other negative
outcomes among homeless youth and young adults, resiliency among this
population has largely been understudied.
Specifically, a gap remains in terms
of how protective factors such as self-efficacy, low deviant beliefs, and
religiosity operate among homeless youth and young adults. The purpose of this
study is to examine the relationship between various forms of victimization,
mental health, and protective factors with property and violent crime and
illicit drug use among homeless young adults.
Results from regression analyses
indicate that running away from home more frequently, experiencing more
physical victimization on the street, higher levels of self-efficacy, and more
deviant beliefs were associated with greater property crime.
Significant
correlates of violent crime included being male, running away from home more
frequently, greater sexual and physical victimization on the street, higher
levels of self-efficacy, and more deviant beliefs.
Finally, being male, running
away more frequently from home, greater child physical abuse and partner
victimization, and more deviant beliefs were all associated with greater
illicit drug use.
Self-efficacy was positively related to both property and
violent crime, suggesting that it may not operate for homeless young adults in
the same manner as it does for normative populations.
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By: Tyler KA, Kort-Butler LA, Swendener A.
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