Journal of Interpersonal Violence最新文献

An intrinsic part of hate crime perpetration is to be motivated in part or whole based on biases against another due to their identity. Yet, less is known about how hate crime impacts people who occupy multiple marginalized identities. This analysis moves our understanding forward by employing network analysis to capture how hate crimes and bias-motivated experiences cluster among different victim demographics. We focus here on Latino/a populations in the United States, which are at increased risk for hate crime victimization. Using a sample of Latino/a adults across three U.S. communities (n = 910), we assess the links between bias-motivated experiences based on multiple key demographic intersections. Results demonstrate that gender, immigrant status, and economic status distinctly impact how bias-motivated experiences cluster and relate, particularly when examined together. Findings suggest that it is imperative to look at people's victimization experiences holistically, especially when they hold multiple identities that fundamentally change their experiences with bias-motivated harm. These findings have implications for practitioners, particularly those in the criminal justice system, who seek to better identify and respond to victims of hate crime.

Positive childhood experiences (PCEs) are known to support healthy development. However, their protective role in the presence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) remains unclear, particularly when accounting for the complex nature of ACEs. Research on this relationship outside the United States is especially limited, restricting the generalizability of findings across cultural contexts. This study examined whether PCEs moderate the relationship between distinct ACE subtypes and mental health outcomes, specifically life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety, among South Korean college students. A sample of 408 South Korean college students participated in the study. Latent class analysis was employed to identify distinct ACE profiles, followed by moderation analysis to examine the buffering effects of PCEs on the relationship between ACE class membership and mental health outcomes. Four distinct ACE profiles were identified: Emotional Neglect, High ACEs, Psychological Maltreatment and Home Violence, and Low ACEs. PCEs were consistently linked to better mental health after controlling for ACEs types. However, the protective effects of PCEs differed by ACE profile and were weaker among individuals with more severe or frequent exposure to adversity. While PCEs contribute directly to improved mental health outcomes, their buffering effects in the context of severe ACE exposure appear limited. These findings highlight the dual importance of fostering PCEs and preventing ACEs through timely and targeted interventions.

Young people around the world are increasingly impacted by technology-facilitated harms, yet research shows that teens often do not seek help from adults in their lives to deal with these harms. This article draws data from 25 focus groups with 146 young Canadians (aged 13-18) as they explain why they are reluctant to seek adult help when experiencing technology-facilitated harms. Young Canadians consistently said that adults speak to them in ways that are judgmental, emotionally reactive, and disempowering. To make them more likely to seek help from adults, young people want adults to avoid scare tactic approaches, listen to their perspectives and needs in the aftermath of harm, provide non-judgmental supports, and give them space to openly discuss all the "weird stuff" that they might encounter in digital spaces. These findings underscore the need for adult interventions in young people's digital lives to shift from fear-driven, judgmental approaches toward balanced, non-judgmental, and youth-centered responses that empower young people's agency-an imperative for fostering trust, encouraging help-seeking, and developing more effective support systems-and offer critical guidance for educators, community workers, legislators, and policy makers seeking to build useful and responsive structures for youth dealing with technology-facilitated harms.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is increasingly recognized as a critical threat to adolescent well-being; however, its specific impact on bullying perpetration and the mechanisms underlying this association remain insufficiently understood. To address this gap, the present cross-sectional study examines how school-based GBV is associated with bullying perpetration, focusing on the indirect pathways through social and emotional competence and the moderating effect of national-level masculinity-femininity cultural values. Drawing on cross-national data from 32,111 adolescents across 13 countries, and employing multilevel modeling with mediation and moderation analyses, the study yields three key findings: (a) school-based GBV is positively associated with higher levels of bullying perpetration; (b) this relationship is significantly mediated by reductions in adolescents' social and emotional competence; and (c) the effect of GBV on bullying perpetration is stronger in high-masculinity cultural contexts than in low-masculinity cultural contexts. These findings offer a more comprehensive understanding of how individual psychosocial factors and cultural gender norms jointly shape adolescent aggression and offer practical implications for implementing school-based anti-GBV policies and social-emotional learning programs to reduce bullying behaviors.