Distress and Violent Victimization among Young Adolescents
| Autor: | J. Mitchell Miller, Melissa W. Burek, Christopher J. Schreck, Eric A. Stewart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Longitudinal study
Social Psychology Aggression education 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Poison control social sciences Suicide prevention Social interactionist theory Developmental psychology Distress Injury prevention medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences medicine.symptom Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Adolescent health |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 44:381-405 |
| ISSN: | 1552-731X 0022-4278 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022427807305851 |
| Popis: | This article explores the empirical validity of the Social Interactionist (SI) perspective as an explanation of violent victimization. An additional goal is to explain why early puberty among adolescents is connected to violent victimization. Using SI, we theorize that early puberty creates unusually high levels of distress for adolescents (more so for girls than boys), causing them to behave in ways that create grievances with others and provoke victimization. The research hypotheses were tested using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative data set of teenagers attending school in the United States. We found that measures of distress significantly increase violent victimization among members of the sample. Furthermore, the SI measures partially mediated the relationship between early puberty and violent victimization for boys and fully mediated this relationship for girls. |
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