The Short-Term Effects of Cognitive-Emotive Imbalances in Victimization Threat Appraisals on Precursors to Long-Term Life Quality Among High School Students - CANCELLED

• In Event: Victimization over the Life Course

Abstract

Emotional arousal supplies the urgency to respond to victimization threats, but the degree of arousal could be either too excessive or insufficient in relation to the actor’s subjective appraisal of the likelihood of that victimization. In the fear of victimization literature, this imbalance is theorized to be undesirable for quality of life; among young people who are too afraid or not afraid enough, a misalignment might produce increased isolation or victimization trauma and so impair their ability to form attachments and commitments–bonds with society that criminological theorists believe are a necessary foundation for advantageous outcomes later in life. Using two waves of adolescent panel data, we investigate the effects of a cognitive-emotive imbalance on relational and academic outcomes.

Author

• Christopher Schreck, Rochester Institute of Technology