RT Article
T1 Violent victimization and women's mental and physical health: evidence from a national sample
JF Journal of research in crime and delinquency
VO 42
IS 4
SP 384
OP 411
A1 DeMaris, Alfred 1946-
A1 Kaukinen, Catherine E.
A2 Kaukinen, Catherine E.
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639658742
AB This study employs a sample of 7,700 women drawn from the Survey of Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men in the United States 1994 to 1996 to test hypotheses regarding the effects of violent victimization on women's mental and physical health. Violent victimization consisted of physical and sexual assaults, the life-course stage in which victimization first occurred, and the nature of the victim-offender relationship. Outcome variables were depressive symptomatology, concern for current safety, self-assessed health, and the occurrence of heavy episodic drinking. Findings suggested that physical and sexual-assault victimization had only modest effects on health outcomes, with the severity of physical assault having the most consistent association with poor health. The victim-offender relationship appeared most important for depressive symptomatology, with more symptoms being reported when the offender was someone known to the victim. No evidence was found that assaults first occurring in, say, childhood or adolescence, were more consequential for health than those first occurring in adulthood. The experience of child maltreatment appeared to be as important as other forms of victimization in presaging poor health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
K1 Viktimisierung
K1 Gewalttaten
K1 Frauen
K1 Sexualdelinquenz
K1 Folgen
K1 Täter-Opfer-Beziehung
K1 Depression