Mental Disorder and Violent Victimization: The Mediating Role of Involvement in Conflicted Social Relationships*

Silver, Eric

doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2002.tb00954.x

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“…These perceptions and concerns of neighborhood violence appear to be well founded; actual reports of violence against individuals with mental illness also appear to be higher. For example, Silver (2002) found that individuals with mental illness were more likely than individuals without a mental illness diagnosis to be victims of violent crime even after controlling for individual-and community-level correlates of violent victimization.…”

Section: Predictors Of Neighborhood Social Climatementioning

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Investigating the Relationship Between Neighborhood Experiences and Psychiatric Distress for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

Kloos

Townley

2010

Adm Policy Ment Health

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The present study examined the relationships between how research participants experienced their neighborhood, their neighborhood social climate, and psychological well-being. Participants (n = 525) were residents of supported housing programs who used mental health services at one of 17 community mental health centers in South Carolina. Hierarchical regression and mediation analyses were employed to answer research questions. Results suggest that neighbor relations, perceptions of neighborhood safety, and neighborhood satisfaction were significantly associated with perceptions of neighborhood social climate; and neighborhood social climate accounted for a significant amount of the variance in psychiatric distress. Of particular interest, perceptions of neighborhood social climate fully mediated the relationship between the specific reported neighborhood experiences and psychiatric distress. These findings have implications for interventions and policy aimed at promoting integration of individuals with serious mental illness into community settings.

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Section: Predictors Of Neighborhood Social Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Relationship Between Neighborhood Experiences and Psychiatric Distress for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

Kloos

Townley

2010

Adm Policy Ment Health

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“…In community studies, factors most commonly associated were substance use 7,13,15,16,18,20,21,23 , young age 7,11,15,16,18,21,22 , severe symptomatology 13,16,19,23,26 , recent history of perpetration of violence 15,16,18,19,22 , engagement in criminal activity 11,16,19,23 , male gender 11,15,16,18 and homelessness 14,17 .…”

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“…Of these studies, ten were conducted in the United States 6,7,[11][12][13][14][15]21,22,24 , two in England 9,16 , two in Australia 17,19 , two in Sweden 25,27 , one in Finland 18 , one in New Zealand 20 , one in Greece 26 and one was a multicentric study 23 . The total sample size was of 13.997 individuals, of whom 53,5% (7.490/13.997) were male.…”

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“…This variation concerns methodological factors; these include the population studied (for example, inpatients, patients residing in the community, type of diagnosis, amongst other things), type of victimization (violent or non-violent), the period considered (prevalence in 12 months, 36 months, amongst others) and the form of collecting data (through interviews or databases). In community studies, in urban areas, prevalence rates ranged from 4,3% to 42,6% [11][12][13]15,16,[19][20][21]27 . Results were similar when considering only rural areas 7,18,[22][23][24]26 .…”

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Victimization of The Mentally Ill

El-Missiry

2016

Eur. psychiatr.

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Background: Individuals with serious mental illnesses compose a group particularly vulnerable to victimization. This major susceptibility to violent crimes is due to the impairment of their cognitive functions and to the living conditions of these individuals. Objectives: This paper aimed to perform a systematic review of the literature about the occurrence and factors associated with victimization in this population, in addition to evaluate the national literature about the subject. Methods: Publications that assessed the prevalence of victimization in individuals with serious mental illness were analyzed. Medline (1966 to February 2013 and Lilacs (1982 to February 2013 databases were searched. Separate searches were conducted for the keywords "mental illness", "psychiatric disorder(s)", "mental disorder(s)", "schizophrenia", "psychosis", "psychotic", "depression", "bipolar", combined with each of the following keywords: "victimization", "victimisation", "sexual abuse", "physical abuse". Results: Twenty papers were found. There were no publications on the topic in national and Latin-American literature. Although they differ in methodology, in the concept of victimization and in sociodemographic and clinical variables, the studies showed that patients with serious mental disorders present higher risk of victimization when compared to the general population. The main factors associated with victimization were: substance use, young age, severe symptomatology, recent history of violence perpetration, criminal history, male gender, and homelessness. Discussion: Individuals with serious mental disorders show high rates of victimization. The subject deserves further studies in our area.

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“…But another explanation for why some disorders are associated with victimization is that they induce passivity. In this vein, some studies emphasize how mental illness compromises the ability of individuals to perceive and respond to threats (Hiday 1995;Marley and Buila 2001;Silver 2002;Teplin et al 2005). In this interpretation, inmates with psychiatric disorders are vulnerable not because they provoke others but because their disorders prevent them from adequately protecting themselves.…”

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Orange Is Still Pink

Schnittker

Baćak

2015

Society and Mental Health

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Although research has established a very strong relationship between the presence of a psychiatric disorder and victimization in prisons, some gaps remain in our understanding. This study considers the importance of gender differences in this relationship. Estimates based on the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities show that psychiatric disorders have a stronger relationship with victimization among male inmates than among female inmates. Yet the size of the gender difference varies greatly depending on the specific disorder. Depressive disorders have a much stronger relationship with victimization among men than among women, but other disorders, such as psychosis, show no gender difference. Symptom-specific analyses further confirm the nature of the difference. Victimization appears to be based in part on how well symptoms do or do not overlap with traditional gender roles. Male-atypical symptoms (e.g., sadness) have a stronger relationship with victimization among men, whereas female-atypical symptoms (e.g., anger) have a stronger relationship with victimization among women. Gender-neutral symptoms (e.g., hallucinations and delusions) have an equivalent relationship between genders. Further analyses suggest that these gender differences are not explained (with some exceptions) by verbal or physical provocation. These findings are interpreted in light of the literature on the nature of social control in men's and women's prisons as well as the literature on stigma.

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Mental Disorder and Violent Victimization: The Mediating Role of Involvement in Conflicted Social Relationships*

Cited by 153 publications

References 26 publications

Investigating the Relationship Between Neighborhood Experiences and Psychiatric Distress for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

Investigating the Relationship Between Neighborhood Experiences and Psychiatric Distress for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

Victimization of The Mentally Ill

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