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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"victimisation"”.
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Overweight-related victimisation in pre-adolescent boys and girls
… investigate the frequency of overweight-related victimisation and its psychological correlates in preadolescent boys and girls. It was hypothesised that victimised children would have lower self-esteem, more body dissatisfaction, and be more likely to report dieting to lose weight. From the …
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
… patriarchal society that aligns femininity with victimisation and masculinity with perpetration. Across four chapters I outline how the fictional boys negotiate their various experiences of victimisation (intragenerational and intergenerational, homosexual and heterosexual, intrafamilial and …
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Perceptions, awareness, and individual differences in cyber dating abuse perpetration and victimisation
… individual differences in the perpetration and victimisation of cyber dating abuse. Integrating qualitative and quantitative methodologies, the thesis investigates perceptions and awareness of cyber dating abuse and the factors that may predict victimisation or perpetration. The qualitative …
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Victimisation of street children in Addis Ababa: factors of resilience and susceptibility
… Girls on the street experience considerably less victimisation. Urban poor girls live in socio-economic circumstances akin to girls on the street but enjoy almost universal protection from victimisation because they do not spend time on the streets. Unprotected by the stability which a family …
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Self-esteem, victimisation and perception of peer relationships in obese children and adolescents
… adolescents are vulnerable to overweight-related victimisation. This too has psychological consequences. This study examined the prevalence of overweight-related victimisation in obese children and adolescents who attended a residential activity-based weight loss camp. The association between …
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Towards a Typology for Understanding Mobile Phone Victimisation in South African High Schools
Mobile victimisation is one form of cyber aggression that is increasing and affecting many young people today. While several studies on cyberbullying and cyber victimisation have been done, the focus on mobile victimisation has been limited. In addition, findings presented in earlier studies have …
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An investigation of the behavioural, dispositional, and personality associations with former-intimate harassment perpetration and victimisation
… and their roles in harassment perpetration and victimisation, using questionnaire based studies. Study 1 (N = 160 undergraduates; 73 males) assessed whether three levels of harassment (non-, minor or severe) were associated with physical aggression, control, and personality traits. Personality …
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Towards a digital tool for monitoring and reporting mobile victimisation among South African high school students
Mobile victimisation is one form of cyber aggression that is increasing and affecting many young people in the developing world today. However, the focus on mobile victimisation in developing nations is limited. There is also limited theoretical work to enhance the conceptualisation of mobile …
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The Albanian Cycle of Victimisation: Exploring the Pathways Between Maternal Exposure to Violence and Early Child Development
Background: The implementation of evidence-based policies has been proven to contribute to the reduction of domestic violence and its social consequences. However, such data-informed preventive efforts tend to be limited to affluent countries. Although 80% of the world’s population lives in …
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Understanding Adolescent Dating Violence Victimisation: A Longitudinal Investigation of Associated Predictors and Outcomes, Gender and Violence Forms
… of the variables associated with dating violence victimisation by targeting four main objectives: 1) To systematically review existing research on the associations between dating violence victimisation and well-being-related outcomes; 2) To examine a selection of predictors and outcomes of dating …
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Civilian victimisation in the Tajik civil war: how the popular front won the war and ruined the nation
… It also analyses the effects of civilian victimisation on short-term conflict dynamics and longterm state security. Utilising the strategic approach, it constructs an original model of targeting<br/>incentives and strategic outcomes, and applies this analytical framework to the Tajik civil …
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Le cycle intergénérationnel de la victimisation sexuelle à l’enfance : facteurs maternels associés et profil des dyades mère-enfant impliquées
… s’intéresse au cycle intergénérationnel de la victimisation sexuelle dans l’enfance. Un premier article a pour objectif de faire état des connaissances scientifiques actuelles sur le cycle intergénérationnel de la victimisation sexuelle dans l’enfance et propose un premier modèle explicatif …
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Understanding theft from the person and robbery of personal property victimisation trends in England and Wales, 1994-2010/11
This thesis explores the changing nature of theft from the person and robbery of personal property over a 17-year period (1994-2010/11) in England and Wales. Between 1995 and 2010/11, all crime recorded by the British Crime Survey (BCS) fell 50 per cent, with a 27 and 17 per cent fall in robbery …
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Fuelling the Fire: The effects of Instagram discourse about farm attacks on levels of fear of crime and victimisation
… accounts were feeding into the fear of crime and victimisation in relation to farm attacks. The research showed that by posting certain graphic images and incendiary language, Instagram accounts are partially responsible for adding fuel to the fire around farm attacks. I argue that these accounts …
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Histoires de vie de femmes impliquées dans un cycle intergénérationnel de la victimisation sexuelle à l'enfance : une étude qualitative exploratoire
… les risques qu’un enfant subisse ce même type de victimisation, suggérant l’existence d’un cycle intergénérationnel de la victimisation sexuelle à l’enfance (CIVSE). À notre connaissance, le CIVSE n’a été que très peu étudié par le biais de méthodes qualitatives, en donnant une voix aux personnes …
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First time offenders as once and future victims: Using police records to explore the victim-offender overlap in the Turning Point Project
… critical areas and answers are needed about how victimisation and offending co-occur and how to identify those victim-offenders who are most harmed (Bottoms and Costello, 2010). Furthermore, there is limited knowledge about what effect interventions such as out of court disposals (OOCD) have on …
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Appraisals of Anomalous Experiences in Need for Care versus Non-Need for Care Groups: Examining the Cognitive Route of Impact of Victimisation Life Events
… to moving people along the psychosis continuum. Victimisation has also been implicated in both clinical and non-clinical populations. The role of appraisals in providing a cognitive route between victimisation and psychosis is investigated more fully in the current …
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Motifs of transformation in four novels of Margaret Atwood
… Atwood foregrounds in her writing is that of victimisation, whether she is writing of the victimisation of a country, of a minority group, of animals or of an individual. She adopts the position that through acknowledgement of that victimisation, and a refusal to accept the role of victim, it …
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