Prospective associations between peer victimization and aggression
- PMID: 21077855
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01501.x
Prospective associations between peer victimization and aggression
Abstract
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.
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