Open AccessChildren With Intellectual Disability and Victimization: A Logistic Regression Analysis
Author(s) -
Katherine Brendli,
Michael Broda,
Ruth C. Brown
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
child maltreatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1552-6119
pISSN - 1077-5595
DOI - 10.1177/1077559521994177
Subject(s) - odds , logistic regression , intellectual disability , psychology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , injury prevention , odds ratio , occupational safety and health , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology
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.