Child polyvictimization in Zongo communities in Ghana: Young people’s reflections on systemic resilience enablers

Abdullah, Asm; Cudjoe, Ebenezer; Jordan, Lucy P.; Emery, Clifton R.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105075

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“…Since the study sample of younger cohort adolescents included a mix of pre and post-pubertal girls and boys, the timing of their exposures to polyvictimization may have also impacted their resilience. Overall, these study findings point to the need for future research, including qualitative research, for a more in-depth exploration of polyvictimization, its associations with adolescent mental and physical health, and resilience in order to understand individual-level experiences, processes, and perspectives [ 104 ].…”

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Polyvictimization and Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Ethiopia: The Mediating Role of Resilience

Miller,

Butera,

Ellsberg

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Interpersonal violence is a pervasive experience affecting one billion children and adolescents annually, resulting in adverse health and well-being outcomes. Evidence suggests that polyvictimization, the experience of multiple forms of violence, is associated with more harmful consequences for adolescents than experiencing individual types of violence, although data from low-and middle-income countries are limited. This study analyzed data on over 4100 adolescents from the Gender and Adolescence, Global Evidence Study in Ethiopia to examine the association between polyvictimization and adolescent mental and physical health and the mediating role of resilience using linear regression and path analysis. We hypothesized that adolescents experiencing polyvictimization would experience worse mental and physical health than those experiencing no types or individual types of victimization, and that resilience would mediate these relationships. Half of sampled girls and over half of boys experienced polyvictimization. Among both sexes, polyvictimization was associated with worse mental but not worse physical health. Resilience mediated the association between polyvictimization and mental health among girls only. Strengthening resilience among girls may be an effective avenue for mitigating polyvictimization’s negative mental health effects, but additional research and programming for preventing and identifying polyvictimized adolescents and linking them to care is needed.

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