Poly-victimization, resilience, and suicidality among adolescents in child and youth-serving systems
Background: Adolescents in child and youth-serving systems often present a high risk of emotional and behavior problems, which may include suicidal behavior. The presence or absence of these problems may be due to personal or contextual factors and the possible protective role that they may exert. O...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:2445/217065 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217065 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Administració de justícia de menors Resiliència (Tret de la personalitat) en els infants Menors Víctimes Administration of juvenile justice Resilience (Personality trait) in children Minors Victims |
| Sumario: | Background: Adolescents in child and youth-serving systems often present a high risk of emotional and behavior problems, which may include suicidal behavior. The presence or absence of these problems may be due to personal or contextual factors and the possible protective role that they may exert. Objective: To examine the relationship between poly-victimization, resilience, and suicidality among adolescents in child and youth-serving systems. Method: Participants and setting: 227 adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years (M = 15.24; SD = 1.56), recruited from residential centers in Spain or the Spanish juvenile justice system, completed the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire, the Youth Self-Report, and the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire for assessment of victimization, suicidality, and resilience respectively. Results: Poly-victimization during lifetime was reported by 61.7% and some kind of suicidality by 39.6% of the total sample. Logistic regression results showed that in the first step, suicidality was twice as likely in poly-victims as in the other respondents (OR = 2.13, 95% CI 1.12–3.90, p = .014). In the second step, the six resilience domains (self, family, peers, school, community and educators) were added. The self-domain emerged as statistically significant; it was associated with a lower probability of the occurrence of suicidality (OR = 0.32, 95% CI 0.14–0.70, p = .004) and explained significant added variance in suicidality over and above the measures of poly-victimization. In depth analysis of the subtypes that make up the self-domain found emotional insight to be statistically significant (OR = 0.82, 95% CI 0.73–0.92, p = .001). Conclusions: The findings highlight the importance of self-resources as a key intervention objective in adolescents with suicidal behaviors and poly-victimization. |
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