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A latent class analysis of technology-facilitated sexual violence: Associations to other victimizations, psychiatric symptoms, and gender
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences (HOV).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2148-8044
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2025 (English)In: International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, ISSN 0145-2134, E-ISSN 1873-7757, Vol. 161, p. 107309-, article id 107309Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Background: Poly-victimization research has shown the cumulative detrimental effects of violence exposure on mental health. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) of victimization is a growing research field uncovering specific combinations of violence exposures particularly negative to mental health. Despite a growing concern of technology-facilitated violence (TFSV), it is scarcely included in LCA studies. Objectives: Investigating victimization typologies that includes technology facilitated sexual violence. Participants and setting: Cross-sectional survey data from a representative sample of Swedish young people in the age range of 16–23 (N = 3243, mean age = 18.20, SD = 0.61). Methods: A Latent Class Analysis was conducted using the package PoLCA in R. A model with three classes was deemed to best fit the data. Results: Class 1 (sexual polyvictimization, 10.1 %) had high probabilities of all forms of sexual violence including TFSV and the highest proportion of psychiatric diagnosis (45.2 %). This class consisted of mostly girls. Class 2 (child abuse polyvictimization,14.8 %) was characterized by high probabilities of physical and psychological child abuse and had an even gender distribution. 30.6 % of this class endorsed having a psychiatric diagnosis. Class 3 (75.1 %) was a low victimization/normative subgroup with an even gender distribution and a low (12.8 %) frequency of psychiatric diagnosis. Class 1 exhibited the highest levels of psychiatric symptoms. Conclusions: Prevention efforts targeted against TFSV should consider the whole web of violence that some young people are situated in. Since TFSV seems to be connected to psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis, Child- and Adolescent Psychiatric services should pay more attention to this type of violence among their young patients. 

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Elsevier BV , 2025. Vol. 161, p. 107309-, article id 107309
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Child abuse, Child- and adolescent psychiatry, Gender, Latent Class Analysis, Poly-victimization, Technology-facilitated sexual violence
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-53839DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107309Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85217405979OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-53839DiVA, id: diva2:1938394
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