Peer victimization,prison climate,resilience and psychological distress of incarcerated juvenile offenders in Ghana: A serial mediation examination |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Ghana;2. Department of Psychiatry, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana;3. Department of Mental Health, University of Cape Coast, Ghana;1. Division of Forensic Dentistry, Faculdade Sao Leopoldo Mandic, Brazil;2. Post-Graduate Program in Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil;3. School of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil;4. Crime Scene Investigation, General Institute of Forensics, Santa Catarina, Brazil;5. Division of Preventive and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil;6. Department of Therapeutic Stomatology, Sechenov University, Russia;1. The Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia;2. Department of Forensic Services, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Southbank, VIC, 3006, Australia;3. Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Southbank, VIC, 3006, Australia;4. Department of Emergency Medicine, St Vincent''s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, VIC, 3065, Australia;1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai, 200063, People''s Republic of China;2. School of Forensic Medicine, Guizhou Medical University, 4 Beijing Road, Guiyang, China;1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka;2. Office of the Judicial Medical Officer, Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka |
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| Abstract: | Most Ghanaian research in the area of victimization among children has focused on the school setting. Little research has been done in an attempt to understand inmate-on-inmate victimization within the juvenile correctional facilities in Ghana. This study, therefore, investigated the extent to which peer victimization influences psychological distress among juvenile offenders in the Senior Correctional Center of Ghana. A cross-sectional design was used to purposively sample 115 juvenile offenders for the study. Following mediation analysis performed in PROCESS, the results revealed that prison climate and resilience serially mediated the relationship between peer victimization and psychological distress. Independently, both prison climate and resilience mediated the relationship between peer victimization and psychological distress. It was recommended that anti-bullying programs ought to be institutionalized to create mental health awareness within the correctional facilities. Also, support systems such as the Listener Scheme need to be deployed within the correctional facilities. |
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| Keywords: | Victimization Psychological distress Resilience Prison climate Juvenile offenders |
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