Journal Article

Prospective Associations Between Peer Victimization and Aggression

Ostrov, Jamie M.

2010

Overview

The current study involved a short-term longitudinal study of young children (M = 44.56 months, SD = 11.88, N = 103) to test the prospective associations between peer victimization and aggression subtypes. Path analyses documented that teacher-reported physical victimization was uniquely associated with increases in observed physical aggression over time. The path model also revealed that teacher-reported relational victimization was uniquely associated with statistically significant increases in observed relational aggression over time. Ways in which these findings extend the extant developmental literature are discussed.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,Wiley-Blackwell
• Subject: Aggression / Aggression - psychology / Aggressiveness / Associations / Behavior modeling / Behavioural psychology / Biological and medical sciences / Bullying / Child / Child Behavior - psychology / Child Development / Child psychopathology / Child, Preschool / Childhood / Children / Children & youth / Correlation / Correlation analysis / Creeks / Crime Victims - psychology / Developmental psychology / Disclosure / EMPIRICAL REPORTS / Faculty / Female / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / Human aggression / Humans / Juvenile victims / Longitudinal Studies / Male / Models, Psychological / Observation / Path Analysis / Peer Group / Peer groups / Peer Relationship / Peer relationships / Peers / Personality Development / Preschool education / Prospective Studies / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychology. Psychophysiology / Risk Factors / Short term / Studies / Subtypes / Teacher Attitudes / Teachers / Time Factors / Victimization / Victims / Victims of Crime / Young children