Российский психологический журнал (Mar 2022)
Child-Parent Relationships and Individual Experience as Structural Determinants of Victimization in Adolescence
Abstract
Introduction. There are not enough studies in the scientific literature that designate the specifics of the determinants of a particular type of victim behaviour. The study aims to examine the structural determination of the predisposition and realization of various forms of victim behaviour in adolescence by child-parent relationships and individual experience. For the first time, we analyzed the combination of social factors, which represents a holistic synthesis that directly ensures the realization of forms of victimization during adolescence. Methods. The study (total number of respondents – 340) involved young people aged 16 to 18 years, of which 191 were girls and 149 were boys. The study used the following methods: The Biographical Inventory for the Diagnosis of Behavioural Disorders (BIV) (Bottscher, Jager & Lischer, adapted by V. A. Chiker), Child-Parent Relations of Adolescents (CPRA) (P. Troyanovskaya), Technique to Study the Propensity to Victim Behaviour (O. O. Andronnikova). For data processing and analysis, Pearson’s chi-square test and multiple regression analysis (stepwise regression) were used. The regression analysis shows the prognostic influence of the child-parent relationships models and social factors on the parameters that reflect the tendency to victim behaviour in young men (p < 0.000). Results. The specificity of structural determinants (child-parent relations, negative experience in childhood) of various types of victim behaviour is revealed. The analysis of regression models allows us to conclude about the prognostic influence of social factors on the emergence of inclination for specific types of victim behaviour, taking into account the contribution of each factor to the overall system of determinants. Discussion. The use of the polysystemic principle made it possible to identify the mutual structural influence of social factors, exceeding their simple conjunction, on the inclination to implement specific forms of victimization.
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