Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Foundations of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2022 Aug;27(3):320-324. doi: 10.1177/1077559521994177. Epub 2021 Feb 10.
It is a common assumption that children with disabilities are more likely to experience victimization than their peers without disabilities. However, there is a paucity of robust research supporting this assumption in the current literature. In response to this need, we conducted a logistic regression analysis using a national dataset of responses from 26,572 parents/caregivers to children with and without disabilities across all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia. The purpose of our study was to acquire a greater understanding of the odds of victimization among children with and without intellectual disability (ID), while controlling for several child and parent/adult demographic correlates. Most notably, our study revealed that children with ID have 2.84 times greater odds of experiencing victimization than children without disabilities, after adjusting for the other predictors in the model. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
人们普遍认为，残疾儿童比没有残疾的同龄人更容易遭受伤害。然而，目前的文献中几乎没有强有力的研究支持这一假设。针对这一需求，我们使用来自全美 50 个州和哥伦比亚特区的 26572 名有和没有残疾儿童的父母/照顾者的全国性数据集，进行了逻辑回归分析。我们研究的目的是在控制几个儿童和父母/成人人口统计学相关因素的情况下，更好地了解有和没有智力障碍（ID）的儿童遭受伤害的几率。最值得注意的是，我们的研究表明，在调整模型中的其他预测因素后，有 ID 的儿童遭受伤害的几率是没有残疾的儿童的 2.84 倍。讨论了对未来研究和实践的影响。
