Sentences with phrase «lower victimization»

At the individual level being Turkish and from former Yugoslavia were associated with lower victimization scores.

On the class level, a positive class climate was related to lower victimization scores.

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It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

The authors note that it is particularly troubling that across development, the relation between lower levels of prosocial support and both forms of victimization becomes stronger.

Relational victimization, experienced by boys and girls at similar levels, was related to higher levels of relational aggression and internalizing problems such as symptoms of depression and of anxiety, as well as lower levels of received prosocial behavior like peer support and help (called prosocial support).

That is, older adolescents who report victimization are more likely to also report lower levels of prosocial support.

The study also found that children and adolescents who experience higher levels of overt victimization report higher levels of overt aggression and lower levels of prosocial support, and exhibit more externalizing behavior such as delinquency, impulsivity, and conduct problems.

Among teenagers who suffered from relational victimization, the more support they received from their friends, the lower their feelings of depression.

The researchers suggest the lower overall rate of future victimization may be attributable to increased awareness of victims, police action, and other services that victims receive after reporting their experience to authorities.

Future interpersonal violence victimizations were 20 percent lower, and future thefts were 27 percent lower.

Children who experienced severe peer victimization were more than twice as likely to report depression or low moods at age 15 compared with those who experienced low or no victimization, and 3 times more likely to report anxiety.

Most troubling, the severe victimization group was almost 3.5 times more likely to report serious suicidal thoughts or suicide attempts compared with the none / low group.

However, among those girls who had higher rates of previous dating violence victimization, completion of «My Voice, My Choice» was associated with lower rates of psychological victimization — being yelled at or called names, having a boy try to frighten or spread rumors about her — and lower rates of psychological distress.

«We were happy to see that for most kids, the levels of victimization were lower overall or decreasing over time.

And here's the real surprise: according to the Crime Victims Institute study, online daters actually tend to have slightly lower rates of victimization than traditional daters.

A study of 2,300 middle school children found that victimized students had significantly lower grade point averages than nonvictimized students did; the researchers concluded that «peer victimization can not be ignored when trying to improve educational outcomes» (Juvonen, Wang, & Espinoza, 2010).

And if they hadn't so decided, despite hand - wringing and claims or inferences of victimization, the authors would have survived, and been free to do what so many authors of papers do when their studies are rejected for publication: look to publish in another journal — perhaps one with a lower impact factor — or make substantial revisions and try to publish elsewhere, or move on to something else.

Canadians living in the eastern part of the country, where rates of both self - reported victimization and police - reported crime are generally lower, reported being more satisfied with their personal safety from crime than those in the west.

Finkelhor and his colleagues agreed that there were some bright spots in the research: «Peer victimization rates and bullying perpetration rates in the past year were lower for the younger children (ages 5 — 9) who had been exposed to higher quality programs in their lifetime.»

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Measuring adverse experiences is important for urban economically distressed children, who, in addition to experiencing poverty as an adversity, may be subjected to the experiences of abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction, along with a host of other stressors, including community violence, discrimination, and peer victimization.9, 37 The large percentage of racial minorities comprising low - income urban populations makes having an understanding of cultural norms key to conceptualizing adversity in these communities.

Peer victimization is a risk - factor that contributes to a variety of internalizing and externalizing problems including lower self - esteem, higher levels of social anxiety, depression or aggression, deficiencies in social skills and adjustment problems.

An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.

To assess adversity among inner - city low - income youth, clinicians should consider adding the following experiences to current ACE measures: single - parent homes; lack of parental love, support, and guidance; death of family members; exposure to violence, adult themes, and criminal behavior; date rape; personal victimization; bullying; economic hardship; discrimination; and poor health.

A study of 2,300 middle school children found that victimized students had significantly lower grade point averages than nonvictimized students did; the researchers concluded that «peer victimization can not be ignored when trying to improve educational outcomes» (Juvonen, Wang, & Espinoza, 2010).

However, there was an interaction between bullying and victimization in the prediction of callous - unemotional (CU) traits, such that the association between bullying and CU traits was stronger for those lower on victimization.

Longitudinal Associations Among Youth Depressive Symptoms, Peer Victimization, and Low Peer Acceptance: An Interpersonal Process Perspective.

Overprotective Parenting and Peer Victimization in Extremely Low Birth Weight Survivors.

Previous research on traditional bullying among adolescents has found a relatively consistent link between victimization and lower self - esteem, while finding an inconsistent relationship between offending and lower self - esteem.

However, when the children were 7 to 9 years of age, the intervention group did not report significantly lower rates of IPV victimization or perpetration than the control group.

Using an intent - to - treat (ITT) design, multivariate regressions suggest that females from families randomly assigned to intervention in early childhood scored lower than those in the control condition on perceptions of dating violence as normative, beliefs about IPV prevalence, exposure to IPV in their own peer group, and expected sanction behaviors for IPV perpetration and victimization.

Peer - victimization was shown to contribute to internalizing symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, and low - self - esteem [8], as well as to externalizing problems, such as aggression, disruptiveness, and other provocative behavior symptoms [9, 10, 11].

It is possible that the rates of physical victimization in the current study of chronically depressed individuals may be lower because depressive verbalizations may serve to suppress physical aggression by a partner.

Vulnerability to depression: A moderated mediation model of the roles of child maltreatment, peer victimization, and serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region genetic variation among children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.

Multivariate analyses indicated that peer victimization was associated with poor academic adjustment, loneliness, submissive — withdrawn behavior, aggression, and low levels of assertive — prosocial behavior.

Results suggest that individual - and peer - level factors may be most relevant for explaining peer victimization among low - income, Hispanic adolescent girls.

Specifically, the positive associations of lower friend victimization and better parent — child relationship quality with life satisfaction are found to be stronger among female adolescents.

Both parental warmth and teacher support were uniquely associated with a lower risk for peer victimization.

Principles from ecological theory and knowledge derived from studies of risk and protection among children and youths are used to examine individual -, peer -, school -, and family - level factors associated with the likelihood of victimization among 150 low - income, urban, Hispanic female eighth - grade students.

Extremely low birth weight (ELBW; < 1000 g) survivors are at increased risk for experiencing both peer victimization and overprotective parenting.

Namely, in adolescents who scored high in theses schema domains, the level of depressive symptoms at T1 and T2 was higher when bullying victimization was high than when it was low.