Anna Segura Montagut

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment

Objectives: To compare the observed and forecasted crime trends in Barcelona, using crime statistics from January 2018 to March 2021. Methods: We trained (seasonal) auto-regressive integrated moving average modelling (95% confidence intervals) using daily recorded crimes from January 2018 to February 2020. These models were then used to forecast cr...

The Catholic Church has faced a large number of complaints against its representatives for sexual crimes that involved children and adolescents as victims. The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of this type of event, its characteristics, and its effects in terms of mental health and social consequences, as well as the spiritu...

The present pilot study assesses the influence of a training program about the prevention and detection of Child Sexual Abuse (Poñendo os Lentes) in increasing the knowledge about this topic among teachers trained through this program, compared to a group of untrained teachers. We analyze whether a group of 20 teachers trained through the Poñendo o...

Objective: The goal of this study was to examine a sample of 38 adult victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) by representatives of the Spanish Catholic Church. Method: An ad-hoc battery of questions divided into five sections was created: (a) Participant’s general personal information, faith, religion and belief system; (b) sexual victimization by the...

Este es el primer estudio nacional en España en el que se evalúan las características diferenciales de la victimización sexual contra niños, niñas y adolescentes por parte de representantes de la Iglesia católica. Participaron 38 adultos (25 varones y 13 mujeres), a quienes se llegó mediante muestreo no probabilístico de conveniencia y bola de niev...

El objetivo de este estudio es incrementar el conocimiento sobre el proceso de revelación y denuncia del abuso sexual infantil en España, mediante entrevistas a 15 víctimas adultas que han vivido esta experiencia antes de los 18 años. Se han recogido datos sobre la revelación y denuncia, la reacción de sus interlocutores y su opinión respecto de la...

Objective: This study aims to determine whether three different methodological approaches used to assess poly-victimization that apply the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ; Finkelhor, Hamby, Ormrod, & Turner, 2005) identify the same group of adolescent poly-victims. Method: The sample consisted of 1,105 adolescents (590 males and 515 fe...

In the past, children and adolescents who suffered child abuse and neglect in Spain were mostly attended to by private charities. Today, each region in Spain has its own structured child welfare system, which protects vulnerable children by applying measures such as foster or residential care. Previous studies have shown that children and adolescen...

Coping strategies are factors that mediate the relationship between interpersonal victimizations and psychological maladjustment. The objectives are as follows: (a) to establish the coping profile of adolescents according to the number of reported interpersonal victimizations; (b) to identify the most victimized adolescents (poly-victims), detectin...

The aims of the present study were to establish interpersonal victimization rates in a clinical sample and to analyze this sample’s risk of victimization relative to the general population. The sample was composed of 472 adolescents (12–17 years of age): 118 outpatients from public mental health centers and 354 students who were matched by age and...

The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of poly-victimization on symptom severity among adolescents being cared for by the child welfare system in a southwestern European country. The sample consisted of 127 youths (62 males and 65 females) aged 12-17 years (M=14.60, SD=1.61) who were recruited from short- and long-term residential centers....

Objective: To analyze lifetime and past-year victimization and polyvictimization among adolescents in residential care from a southwestern European country. Also, age and gender differences in victimization profiles were examined. Method: A sample of 129 youths aged 12-17. years old ( M = 14.58, SD = 1.62; 65 females) were recruited from 18 residen...

Introduction Several studies have reported that immigrant adolescents suffer high rates of victimization. Polyvictimization was established as a well predictor of mental health problems. Many authors have highlighted the need to study immigrant adolescents’ community as they were immersed in a stressful process. Objective The aim is to assess mult...

Objective: To study the relationship between different areas of victimization (e.g. sexual victimization) and psychological symptoms taking into account the full range of victimizations adolescents suffer. The final aim is to contribute further evidence regarding the bias that those studies which focus on just one area of victimization may be intro...

This study aims to provide data regarding the association between reported degree of victimization and suicidal phenomena, with special emphasis on gender differences. There were 923 adolescents recruited from eight secondary schools in Catalonia, Spain. The Youth Self-Report (YSR) and the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) were used to ass...