IMORTANCE OF MENTAL DISORDERS IN VICTIMIZATION

AIM: The aim of this study was to show the importance of mental disorders in victimologic analysis of socio-demographic and psychopathologic characteristics among victims of the sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) in the post-war period from January 1st 2003. to December 31st 2012. METHODS: Our hypothesis on involvement of mental disorders in victimization was tested on a sample of 150 non-violent female victims with mental and behaviour disorders. The control group consists of 150 victims of violent victimization. The study has been designed as multicentric, retrospective form of a matched case-controlled study 1:1, it was statistically processed through multivariate analyses. RESULTS: In a regressive analysis, violent persons were separated from the non-violent ones by these redicting predictive factors: age (R = 0.731, df = 2, χ2 = 3.341, P = 0.006, OR = 0.520 (95%), CI = 0.820-0.950), father's education, mother's education, house, mother's prostitution, PAS in family, sexual abuse and desire for victimization. Members of the control group had more often lived as lodgers (R = 0.015, χ2 = 4.431, P = 0.007, OR = 0.203, CI = 0.390-0.492), with alcohol abuse and high rate of the family violence, nicotinism and sexual abuse. Psychological predictive factors in dividing non-violent from violent victims are: psychoticism (R = 0.791, χ2 = 4.783 df = 1, P < 0.001, OR = 0.749, (95%) CI = 0.368-0,936), HDRS - total: (R = 1.174, χ2 =10.341, df = 1, P < 0.001, OR = 0.770 (95%) CI = 0.650- 0.910), incorporation, orientation, depressiveness and destructiveness with significance of P = 0.001 in Plutchi's test. CONCLUSION: Sexual violence among mentally disordered persons makes 20.50% of all victimizations which were committed by patients with personality disorders and neurotic persons. It has been demonstrated that females in B&H were more exposed to sexual violence because of poor mental health protection and increased violence in the family. Transgenerational model of the stress transmission, victimization in microsocial model of violence.