Lifetime poly-victimization and psychopathological symptoms in Mexican adolescents.

Background: There is a lack of research on the impact of poly-victimization on mental health in Mexico.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between poly-victimization and both internalizing and externalizing symptoms, in a community sample of Mexican adolescents. The starting hypothesis of this study was that poly-victimization would be a better predictor of internalizing and externalizing symptoms than individual categories of victimization (conventional crimes, caregiver victimization, peer and sibling victimization, sexual victimization, witnessing victimization, and electronic victimization).

Victimization and poly-victimization in a community sample of Mexican adolescents.

Background: In Mexico, there is a little information about child and youth poly-victimization.

Objective: The present study aimed to analyze the prevalence of victimization and poly-victimization in a community sample of Mexican adolescents aged 12-17 years.

Participants And Settings: The Mexican version of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire was applied to 1068 adolescents (504 females and 564 males) at six public schools.