Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Three different perspectivesstate dependence perspective, risky heterogeneity perspective, and neighborhood perspectivewere adopted to explain personal victimization risk among South Korean youths.Framed within theories of lifestyles/routine activities, low self-control, and collective efficacy, this dissertation examined (1) the direct and mediating effects of micro level factors (i.e., low self-control and lifestyles/routine activities) on the risk of personal victimization, (2) whether the micro level effects from the first stage of the analysis differed by a youth's sex, (3) the main and moderating effects of collective efficacy at the macro level on victimization risk, and (4) whether within-person changes in time varying factors (lifestyles) coincided with changes in victimization risk over time, controlling for time invariant factors (sex and low self-control).The sample included 2,844 fourth grade students in South Korea followed for five years (through eighth grade).The fourth grade elementary school students were selected from 15 regions (including Seoul and 14 metropolitan cities and provinces) in South Korea.Respondents selected during the first year were assessed annually over a five year period.Several models were incorporated to estimate both cross-sectional and longitudinal effects on personal victimization: (1) structural equation modeling (involving a measurement model to assess latent variables, and a path model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of interest), (2) multi-level modeling (with youths nested within schools), (3) latent growth curve modeling (to estimate intra-and inter-individual differences in developmental growth trajectories in personal victimization), (4) autoregressive latent trajectory models (integrating latent growth curve modeling with auto-regressive, cross-lagged modeling), and (5) multilevel growth curve modeling (integrating multi-level modeling with latent growth curve modeling).All empirical findings are presented, and implications for both theory and future iii research are discussed.
Author: Sujung Cho
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2460495899