Sentences with phrase «severe victimization»

Severe victimization was reported by 5.2 % of children at age 10 years.

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.

Therefore, it is important to prevent severe victimization early in the lifespan,» they say.

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The effects of child sexual abuse include increased risk for development of severe mental, physical and behavioral health disorders; sexually transmitted diseases; self - inflicted injury, substance abuse and violence; and subsequent victimization and criminal offending.

«Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15 % of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school,» writes Dr. Marie - Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors.

«Our results, along with those of many other studies, suggest that severe peer victimization may contribute to the development of mental health problems in adolescence.

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.

Parallel questions were used to measure moderate physical abuse victimization, severe physical violence victimization and sexual dating violence.

This is despite the fact that past research has indicated some of the relationship behaviors exhibited by insecurely attached individuals represent behaviors indicative of either the perpetration or victimization of less severe forms of sexual coercion.

It has to be remembered here that the forms of direct victimization that were asked for in the present study referred to being the victim of hitting, kicking, stealing, and various forms of verbal abuse, whereas there were no questions about more severe forms of physical and sexual abuse.

In a large community study (n = 2,947) 58 % of women who reported being the victim of severe physical violence from their partners also reported elevated depressive symptomatology compared to only 21 % who reported no partner physical victimization (Stets and Straus 1990).

Data were missing for two men and seven women on severe physical victimization; all men and all but two women had complete data on the assessment of mild physical victimization.

As childhood victimization became more severe, the relationship between childhood victimization and adult partner maltreatment became more direct.

This study examined gender differences in cross-gender violence perpetration and victimization (ranging from mild, e.g., push, to severe, e.g., assault with a knife or gun) and attitudes toward dating conflict, among an urban sample of 601 early adolescents (78 % African - American).