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Author: Moore, Briana
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1. Moore, Briana
Under Pressure: A Preliminary Test of Stress Proliferation in Predicting Victimization
Presented: Atlanta GA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2018
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Bullying/Victimization; Divorce; Stress

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The current study proposes that the stress process model, and the mechanism of stress proliferation in particular, provide a good framework for explaining victimization and for integrating victimization into the broader constellation of stressors and strains. This paper provides a preliminary test of stress proliferation by examining the relationship between victimization and stressors not typically associated with victimization in the extant literature, such as divorce and deaths in the family. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this paper utilized correlations and logistic regression to establish if there is any relationship between stressors and victimization. The results indicate that there is modest support for the stress proliferation process as a predictor of victimization. The study found a strong, positive relationship between divorce and victimization, such that those participants who reported a divorce between 2002 and 2005 had significantly greater likelihood of experiencing a victimization between 2006 and 2007. These results indicate that stress proliferation and the stress process model may provide a good framework for future victimization research that seeks to put victimization within the context of other negative events occurring throughout the life-course.
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Moore, Briana. "Under Pressure: A Preliminary Test of Stress Proliferation in Predicting Victimization." Presented: Atlanta GA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2018.