TITLE:
Incidences and Occurences of Future Types of Victimization in Adolescents
AUTHORS:
Margareth Regina Gomes Veríssimo de Faria, Daniela Sacramento Zanini
KEYWORDS:
Victimization, Violence, Adolescents, Incidence, Reincidence
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.10,
August
7,
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper aimed to describe the differences between lifetime and past-year victimizations, to investigate the correlations between the victimizations in two different moments (lifetime and in the past year), and to investigate the influence of lifetime victimization on the occurrence of past-year victimization. Participants were 426 students, aged between 12 to 18 years, from primary and secondary public schools in Goiania (Brazil). 54.2% (N = 231) were female and 45.8% (N = 195) were male. The mean age of participants was 13.87 years (SD = 1.33; Mean = 14 years). The results showed that lifetime victimizations tend to be higher than in the year before. The correlations between past-year and lifetime victimizations were significant and positive (p