title: Individual and social risk factors related to overt victimization in a sample of Spanish adolescents.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicologia Social, Facultad de Psicologia, University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. Maria.J.Cava@uv.es
authors.forename: Maria Jesus
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cava
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Musitu
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murgui
mesh_terms: 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