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Victimization and suicidality among female college students
Janel M Leone1, James M Carroll2
1a Program in Law and Society, The Sage Colleges , Albany , New York , USA.
Objective:
To investigate the predictive role of victimization in suicidality among college women.
Participants:
Female respondents to the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment II (N = 258).
Methods:
Multivariate logistic regression analyses examined the relationship between victimization and suicidality.
Results:
Emotional victimization (odds ratio [OR] = 11.79, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.43, 57.19, p < .01), physical victimization (OR = 6.10, 95% CI = 1.49, 25.08, p < .05), and sexual victimization (OR = 7.53, 95% CI = 2.06, 27.50, p < .01) were all significantly associated with an increased odds of suicidality even after considering the role of depression, anxiety, and stress.
Conclusions:
Victimization is a significant and independent predictor of suicidality among college women. Controlling for relevant psychological health-related variables, college women who reported any of the 3 types of victimization had more than 8 times the odds of suicidality compared with nonvictims.
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