TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Exposure to school violence at school and mental health of victimized adolescents: the mediation role of social support
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Duru, Erdinc
A1  - Balkis, Murat
SP  - 342
EP  - 352
VL  - 76
IS  - 
N2  - The purpose of the current study is to examine the mediation role of social support in the relationship between exposure to violence at school and mental health among adolescents within the framework of two structured models via structural equation model (SEM). The participants consist of a total of 1420 9th, 10th, and 11th grades high school students (54.5% girls and 45.5% boys). The students' ages ranged from 14 to 18 years with a mean of 16.11 (SD=0.91) for total sample. 38 percent of the participants are in the 9th grade, 34.1 percent are in the 10th grade, and 28 percent are in the 11th grade. <br><br>FINDINGS from both models indicated that social support mediated the relationships between exposure to violence and mental health among adolescents. Additionally, both models showed that the associations between exposure to violence, social support and mental health varied by gender. Contributions and implications of the current findings are discussed in detail.<br><br>Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.11.016
ID  - ref1
ER  -