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A Multi-Level Model of Personal Victimization Among South Korean Youths

Cho, Sujung
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562384

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2015, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Criminal Justice.
Three different perspectives – state dependence perspective, risky heterogeneity perspective, and neighborhood perspective – were 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) multi-level growth curve modeling (integrating multi-level modeling with latent growth curve modeling). All empirical findings are presented, and implications for both theory and future research are discussed.
John Wooldredge, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Bonnie Sue Fisher, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Seongho Song, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pamela Wilcox, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
195 p.
Criminology
Personal victimization; Low self-control; Lifestyles; Longitudinal effects; Multilevel effects; Developmental growth trajectories

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  • Cho, S. (2015). A Multi-Level Model of Personal Victimization Among South Korean Youths [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562384

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cho, Sujung. A Multi-Level Model of Personal Victimization Among South Korean Youths. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562384.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cho, Sujung. "A Multi-Level Model of Personal Victimization Among South Korean Youths." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562384

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