Poly-Victimisation among Vietnamese High School Students: Prevalence and Demographic Correlates

Le, My Loan Phung; Holton, Sara; Huong, Nguyen Thanh; Wolfe, Rory; Fisher, Jane

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“…The mean number of experienced events was four (

\bar{normalx} = 4.12

, SD =4.043). This is in line with the earlier studies,14,38,52 higher than the UK studies,53 and lower than the findings of Soler et al54…”

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confidence: 90%

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Victimization, polyvictimization , and health in Swedish adolescents

Aho¹,

Proczkowska-Björklund²,

Svedin³

2016

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The main objective of this article was to study the relationship between the different areas of victimization (eg, sexual victimization) and psychological symptoms, taking into account the full range of victimization domains. The final aim was to contribute further evidence regarding the bias that studies that focus on just one area of victimization may be introduced into our psychological knowledge. The sample included 5,960 second-year high school students in Sweden with a mean age of 17.3 years (range =16–20 years, standard deviation =0.652), of which 49.6% were females and 50.4% males. The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire and the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children were used to assess victimization and psychological problems separately. The results show that a majority of adolescents have been victimized, females reported more total events and more sexual victimization and childhood maltreatment, and males were more often victims of conventional crime. The majority of victimization domains as well as the sheer number of events (polyvictimization [PV]) proved to be harmful to adolescent health, affecting females more than males. PV explained part of the health effect and had an impact on its own and in relation to each domain. This suggests the possibility that PV to a large degree explains trauma symptoms. In order to understand the psychological effects of trauma, clinicians and researchers should take into account the whole range of possible types of victimization.

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“…The mean number of experienced events was four (

\bar{normalx} = 4.12

, SD =4.043). This is in line with the earlier studies,14,38,52 higher than the UK studies,53 and lower than the findings of Soler et al54…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…First, this study confirms that victimization among young people is common: a majority of the adolescents reported at least one event, as found by others 38,41,52,53. The mean number of experienced events was four (

\bar{normalx} = 4.12

, SD =4.043).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Victimization, polyvictimization , and health in Swedish adolescents

Aho¹,

Proczkowska-Björklund²,

Svedin³

2016

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“…The methods of this study have been reported elsewhere in more detail [27] but are summarised below.…”

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“…Examining this construct among adolescents in Southern Vietnam, Vo et al [26] found that being a girl or living in a single-parent-family was associated with worse HRQoL compared to being male or living with both parents. Although experiences of violence among children and adolescents have been investigated in Vietnam, the relationship between these exposures, especially to poly-victimisation, and health-related quality of life has not been investigated specifically [4, 27]. It is not known if exposure to different forms of victimisation is associated with poorer HRQoL; how individual forms of victimisation interact when examined simultaneously; and if accrued experiences of poly-victimisation are associated with poorer HRQoL among young people in Vietnam.…”

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Victimisation, poly-victimisation and health-related quality of life among high school students in Vietnam: a cross-sectional survey

Holton

Huong

et al. 2016

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BackgroundIn high and upper-middle income countries poly-victimisation (exposure to multiple forms of victimisation) is associated with worse health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents. There is a lack of empirical evidence about these associations from low- and lower-middle income countries. The aims of this study were to examine the associations between exposure to 1) individual forms of victimisation and 2) poly-victimisation and the HRQoL of adolescents in Vietnam.MethodA cross-sectional, anonymously-completed survey of high school students in Hanoi, Vietnam. Lifetime exposure to eight individual forms of victimisation and poly-victimisation were assessed using the Juvenile Victimisation Questionnaire Revised-2 (JVQ R2). Health-related quality of life was assessed using the Duke Health Profile Adolescent Version (DHP-A). Bi-variate analyses and multiple linear regressions were conducted to assess the associations between individual forms of victimisation, poly-victimisation and HRQoL among girls and boys.ResultsIn total 1616/1745 students (92.6 %) completed the questionnaire. Adolescent girls had significantly worse HRQoL than boys in all domains, except disability. Different forms of victimisation were associated with different HRQoL domains among girls and boys. Cyber victimisation was the most detrimental to girls’ HRQoL while for boys maltreatment was the most detrimental. Experiences of poly-victimisation were associated with worse HRQoL in physical, mental, social and general health, lower levels of self-esteem and increased levels of anxiety, depression and pain domains among both sexes.ConclusionsAmong Vietnamese adolescents, experiences of individual forms of victimisation were associated with poorer HRQoL in specific domains; the most detrimental forms of victimisation varied for girls and boys. However, it was experiences of poly-victimisation that had the most detrimental impacts on the HRQoL of both sexes. Recognition of violence, including poly-victimisation, is still low in Vietnam. These data indicate that community education, prevention and early intervention programs to reduce violent victimisation and assist adolescents who have experienced it, with attention to gender differences, are needed in Vietnam.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12955-016-0558-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…In Vietnam, some research in schools has addressed various forms of violence among young people (Nguyen, 2012;Nguyen & Tran, 2013) and child maltreatment experiences (Le, Holton, Nguyen, Wolfe, & Fisher, 2015;Nguyen, Dunne, & Le, 2010). The studies that focus specifically on school bullying in Vietnam have used in-depth qualitative methods to explore the characteristics and contexts of bullying (Horton, 2011;Horton, Lindholm, & Nguyen, 2015;UNESCO, 2015).…”

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Temporal patterns and predictors of bullying roles among adolescents in Vietnam: a school-based cohort study

Dunne

Campbell

et al. 2017

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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Although many cross-sectional studies have examined bullying experiences and correlated factors among adolescents in schools, relatively little is known about the extent to which bullying roles are stable or fluid over time. This short-term quantitative longitudinal study in Vietnam examined temporal patterns and predictors of bullying roles over an academic year. A total of 1424 middle and high school students aged 12-17 years completed two anonymous, self-administered questionnaires six months apart in 2014 and 2015. Young people were classified into different bullying roles as follow: not-involved (38.9%), victims only (24%), bullies only (6.6%), and bully-victims (40.4%) across the two times. About 60% of all surveyed students experienced bullying either as victim, bully, or bully-victim during the year. Of these students, nearly three in four indicated unstable bullying roles over time. Multivariate multinomial logistic regressions indicated factors ranging from individual (age, gender, and mental health) to family (social support, parental supervision and monitoring, witnessing parental violence, and conflict with siblings), school (perceived social support, teachers' attempt to stop bullying at school), and peers (social support, students' attempt to stop bullying at school) have significant associations with levels of bullying involvement. Implications for bullying prevention programs nationally and internationally are discussed.

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Poly-Victimisation among Vietnamese High School Students: Prevalence and Demographic Correlates

Cited by 34 publications

References 42 publications

Victimization, polyvictimization , and health in Swedish adolescents

Victimization, polyvictimization , and health in Swedish adolescents

Victimisation, poly-victimisation and health-related quality of life among high school students in Vietnam: a cross-sectional survey

Temporal patterns and predictors of bullying roles among adolescents in Vietnam: a school-based cohort study

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