RT Article
T1 Exploring Family Backgrounds of Chinese Adolescents Who Are Vulnerable to Victimization and Repeated Victimization
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 37
IS 13/14
A1 Zhu, Yuhong
A2 Xiao, Chenyang
A2 Chen, QiQi
A2 Zhu, Bin
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884208592
AB There is abundant evidence in the literature to show that victimization has a series of adverse consequences on child victims? physical and mental health. However, some studies detailed whether the family correlates of repeat victims differ from those who are victimized only once. This study fills this gap by describing the probabilities that children who fit certain profiles will be repeat victims and implies that it is possible to identify and screen individual and family factors who are at high risk of repeated victimization. Using the 2009?2010 Child Victimization Survey, we analyzed data from 14,564 Chinese adolescents aged 14?18?years from five major cities in China. We employed a multinomial logit regression model, using child victimization as the dependent variable and demographic factors as independent variables. We identified the top 1% of the most vulnerable cases and summarized their demographic characteristics. Our analysis revealed that older boys with siblings in the same household whose mothers? education was below average were the most vulnerable to one-time victimization. Further, boys with siblings whose parents were less-educated than average, unemployed, and unmarried were the most vulnerable to repeated victimization. This study has vast practical implications, including different ways to confront the problem of repeated child victimization (both practically and in the literature), develop a quick screening tool, and apply cost-effective prevention and interventions in China.
K1 Chinese adolescents
K1 family backgrounds
K1 juvenile victimization questionnaire
K1 multinomial logit regression
K1 repeated victimization
DO 10.1177/08862605211001185