Victimization And Suicidal Behavior Research Paper
Required Reading #2: Adolescent Victimization and Associated Suicidal and Violent Behaviors.
Summary In this study the relationship between victimization and both suicidal and violent behaviors was studied in high school students across New York State with the exception of the city of New York. It was also sought to be seen if there are differences between male and females in this area. Females were shown to have a higher prevalence of suicidal tendencies only. In general it is thought that victimization can end up causing feelings of depression, or disillusionment which can in turn lead to suicidal tendencies and violence.
Detailed Section: The procedure was to administer the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to high school students in New …show more content…
Methodology: Surveys and then computing software were used and the psychologists made use of the state education system in dispensing their tests.
Conclusions: Better intervention and prevention methods are needed to curb youth violence, the high schools must learn to recognize factors which may lead to problems with victimization, IE poor peer relations and low academic confidence.
Personal Comments: I believe that this article while informative needs some tweaking, it needs to survey a larger number of high schools across many states not just in one state; I also feel that this study should be an eye opener to high school administration and that they need to take the first steps to curb this …show more content…
To perform this study they chose an all girls parochial school and surveyed 561 girls ages thirteen to seventeen. In this study two forms of victimization were focused on Relational victimization and overt victimization, the first being when a person attempts to harm not the person themselves but their relationship with their peers by for example spreading rumors, the overt victimization pertains to physical violence and threats of it. The reason this study was done on females and not males is because females tend to be more open about everything with their friends and tend to facilitate the use of relational victimization more often than boys. The girls also have a tendency to internalize more of the negative acts resulting in more psychological problems. This study had four goals, one, to report the rate of the two types of aggression in an all girls high school, two, " to examine the contributions of overt and relational victimization in predicting adolescent females fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance and loneliness[ ]"( Storch, 2004) , three, to see if girls who experienced both types of aggression were worse off than those who only experienced one of the types, four, " to examine pro-social behaviors from peers as a potential moderator from the negative psychosocial consequences of peer victimization. Used to
Summary In this study the relationship between victimization and both suicidal and violent behaviors was studied in high school students across New York State with the exception of the city of New York. It was also sought to be seen if there are differences between male and females in this area. Females were shown to have a higher prevalence of suicidal tendencies only. In general it is thought that victimization can end up causing feelings of depression, or disillusionment which can in turn lead to suicidal tendencies and violence.
Detailed Section: The procedure was to administer the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to high school students in New …show more content…
Methodology: Surveys and then computing software were used and the psychologists made use of the state education system in dispensing their tests.
Conclusions: Better intervention and prevention methods are needed to curb youth violence, the high schools must learn to recognize factors which may lead to problems with victimization, IE poor peer relations and low academic confidence.
Personal Comments: I believe that this article while informative needs some tweaking, it needs to survey a larger number of high schools across many states not just in one state; I also feel that this study should be an eye opener to high school administration and that they need to take the first steps to curb this …show more content…
To perform this study they chose an all girls parochial school and surveyed 561 girls ages thirteen to seventeen. In this study two forms of victimization were focused on Relational victimization and overt victimization, the first being when a person attempts to harm not the person themselves but their relationship with their peers by for example spreading rumors, the overt victimization pertains to physical violence and threats of it. The reason this study was done on females and not males is because females tend to be more open about everything with their friends and tend to facilitate the use of relational victimization more often than boys. The girls also have a tendency to internalize more of the negative acts resulting in more psychological problems. This study had four goals, one, to report the rate of the two types of aggression in an all girls high school, two, " to examine the contributions of overt and relational victimization in predicting adolescent females fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance and loneliness[ ]"( Storch, 2004) , three, to see if girls who experienced both types of aggression were worse off than those who only experienced one of the types, four, " to examine pro-social behaviors from peers as a potential moderator from the negative psychosocial consequences of peer victimization. Used to