Identifying Psychological Pathways to Polyvictimization

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Abstract

Polyvictims experience elevated victimization risk across multiple contexts. Both contextual and individual factors contribute to becoming a polyvictim: however, extant polyvictimization research has not employed methods to adequately disentangle the confounding effects of these factors on victimization risk. This research uses a discordant twin model to adjust for shared familial factors and isolate the impact of individual differences in cognitive and psychopathological traits on polyvictimization risk—results will be discussed.

Author

• Peter T. Tanksley, University of Cincinnati