Poster #79 - Repeat Victimization in School: The Moderating Effects of Personality and Social Support

• In Event: Poster Session I

Abstract

Despite a growing number of studies examining factors associated with repeat victimization, we have limited knowledge about how the personality traits and social supports of student victims and potentially moderate the effect of prior victimization on subsequent victimization. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate the hypothesis that people who were victimized in the previous year are more likely to be victimized in the following year, but that risk of repeated victimization is moderated by their personality traits and social support from teachers, friends, and family. To test these hypotheses, we used data from 2,000 adolescents participating in Wave II and Wave III of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS), collected in 2011 and 2012 when the adolescents were 13 and14 years of age. Implications for school-based victim-reduction strategies will be discussed.

Authors

• Hyunjung Shim, University of Cincinnati

• SooHyun O, University of Cincinnati

• Pamela Wilcox, Pennsylvania State University