Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire

Objective: To provide the first validity evidence for the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) under the causal indicators approach, using lifetime experiences of victimization in a community sample of adolescents, and to explore the associations between polyvictimization and psychopathologica...

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Autores: Pereda Beltran, Noemí, Gallardo-Pujol, David, Guilera Ferré, Georgina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/225825
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/225825
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Palabra clave:Adolescència
Psicometria
Psicopatologia de l'adolescència
Adolescence
Psychometrics
Adolescent psychopathology
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spelling Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization QuestionnairePereda Beltran, NoemíGallardo-Pujol, DavidGuilera Ferré, GeorginaAdolescènciaPsicometriaPsicopatologia de l'adolescènciaAdolescencePsychometricsAdolescent psychopathologyObjective: To provide the first validity evidence for the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) under the causal indicators approach, using lifetime experiences of victimization in a community sample of adolescents, and to explore the associations between polyvictimization and psychopathological symptoms. Method: The final sample comprised 804 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.52, SD = 1.76) and recruited from 7 secondary schools in northeastern Spain. Victimization experiences and psychopathological symptoms were assessed through the JVQ (Finkelhor, Hamby, Ormrod, & Turner, 2005) and the Youth Self-Report (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Results: There were low correlations between JVQ items, indicating that victimization events tend to be independent. The causal indicators model for causing psychological distress fitted the data, explaining up to 38% and 40% of the variance in internalizing and externalizing symptoms, respectively. Conclusions: An inappropriate approach to validation can have important consequences for applied research into victimization. Using a causal indicators approach it can be concluded that the JVQ is a valid assessment instrument that can obtain relevant information regarding victimization directly from children and adolescents. This information can be used to help tailor clinical interventions to the needs of child and adolescent victims.American Psychological Association2018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/225825Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)InglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000075Psychology of Violence, 2018, vol. 8, num.1, p. 76-86https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000075(c) American Psychological Association, 2018info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2258252026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
title Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
spellingShingle Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
Pereda Beltran, Noemí
Adolescència
Psicometria
Psicopatologia de l'adolescència
Adolescence
Psychometrics
Adolescent psychopathology
title_short Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
title_full Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
title_fullStr Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
title_full_unstemmed Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
title_sort Good Practices in the Assessment of Victimization: The Spanish Adaptation of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pereda Beltran, Noemí
Gallardo-Pujol, David
Guilera Ferré, Georgina
author Pereda Beltran, Noemí
author_facet Pereda Beltran, Noemí
Gallardo-Pujol, David
Guilera Ferré, Georgina
author_role author
author2 Gallardo-Pujol, David
Guilera Ferré, Georgina
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Adolescència
Psicometria
Psicopatologia de l'adolescència
Adolescence
Psychometrics
Adolescent psychopathology
topic Adolescència
Psicometria
Psicopatologia de l'adolescència
Adolescence
Psychometrics
Adolescent psychopathology
description Objective: To provide the first validity evidence for the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) under the causal indicators approach, using lifetime experiences of victimization in a community sample of adolescents, and to explore the associations between polyvictimization and psychopathological symptoms. Method: The final sample comprised 804 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.52, SD = 1.76) and recruited from 7 secondary schools in northeastern Spain. Victimization experiences and psychopathological symptoms were assessed through the JVQ (Finkelhor, Hamby, Ormrod, & Turner, 2005) and the Youth Self-Report (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Results: There were low correlations between JVQ items, indicating that victimization events tend to be independent. The causal indicators model for causing psychological distress fitted the data, explaining up to 38% and 40% of the variance in internalizing and externalizing symptoms, respectively. Conclusions: An inappropriate approach to validation can have important consequences for applied research into victimization. Using a causal indicators approach it can be concluded that the JVQ is a valid assessment instrument that can obtain relevant information regarding victimization directly from children and adolescents. This information can be used to help tailor clinical interventions to the needs of child and adolescent victims.
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