Young Adults Victimized as Children or Adolescents: Relationships Between Perpetrator Patterns, Poly-Victimization, and Mental Health Problems

@article{Kllstrm2020YoungAV,  title={Young Adults Victimized as Children or Adolescents: Relationships Between Perpetrator Patterns, Poly-Victimization, and Mental Health Problems},  author={{\AA}sa K{\"a}llstr{\"o}m and Karin Hellfeldt and Kathryn H. Howell and Laura E. Miller-Graff and Sandra A. Graham-Bermann},  journal={Journal of Interpersonal Violence},  year={2020},  volume={35},  pages={2335 - 2357},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24904770}}
Results suggest that peer victimization presents the greatest risk for males, whereas dysfunctional family relationships are most detrimental to victimized females.

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