Title: Interpersonal Violence Victimization Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019 | MMWR
Headings: Interpersonal Violence Victimization Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019
Interpersonal Violence Victimization Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019
Article Metrics
Altmetric:
Citations: 7
Figure
Tables
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Data Source
Measures
Analysis
Results
Discussion
Limitations
Future Directions
Conclusion
Conflicts of Interest
TABLE 1. Violence victimization measures — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019
View Page In:
pdf icon
PDF [165K]

Content: For instance, in a sample of northeastern 10th-grade students, sexual minority youths reported more bullying, sexual violence, and dating violence victimization than heterosexual youths, with sexual minority females reporting particularly high levels (91% of sexual minority females and 79% of sexual minority males reported at least one form of victimization) ( 6 ). Furthermore, in a study of sexual violence victimization of college students, females had higher odds of victimization than did males, and non-Hispanic black (black) students and students of other races/ethnicities had higher odds of victimization than did non-Hispanic white (white) students; moreover, these racial differences were greater for males. For females, Hispanics had lower odds of sexual violence victimization than whites, and for males, no substantial differences existed between Hispanics and whites ( 7 ). Understanding these disparities in the experience of violence victimization is crucial for identifying those at highest risk and for guiding prevention efforts. Contextual factors also are valuable in describing victimization (e.g., frequency of victimization or co-occurrences of violence subtypes). These factors increase understanding of these violence types and further contextualize prevalence estimates. For example, in a report using 2013 data, approximately 21% of female and 10% of male high school students who reported dating in the previous year experienced sexual or physical dating violence, and 6% of females and 3% of males experienced both physical and sexual dating violence ( 8 ). This report presents 2019 prevalence estimates for dating violence, sexual violence, and bullying victimization of U.S. high school students by sex, race/ethnicity, and sexual identity, and includes frequency of dating violence and sexual violence victimization by demographic characteristics. Combined prevalence of different forms of dating violence and bullying also is presented to provide the most current estimates of each violence type.