Individual and social risk factors related to overt victimization in a sample of Spanish adolescents.
This study analyzes the role of adolescents' self-esteem, loneliness, sociometric status, and perceptions of family and classroom environment on overt vicitimization by peers in a sample of 1319 Spanish adolescents (48% boys and 52% girls), ages 11 to 16 years (M=13.7, SD=1.5). The findings from structural equation modeling suggest that adolescents' self-esteem, loneliness, and sociometric status had a significant direct effect on overt victimization by peers, and adolescents' perceptions of family and classroom environment had a significant indirect effect on peer overt victimization mediated by self-esteem, loneliness, and sociometric status. The findings are discussed with the consideration of these variables as individual and social risk factors for overt victimization by peers.
Cava
Maria Jesus
MJ
Departamento de Psicologia Social, Facultad de Psicologia, University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. Maria.J.Cava@uv.es
Musitu
Gonzalo
G
Murgui
Sergio
S
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires