Predictors of Peer Victimization among Urban Youth

By Laura D. Hanish, N. Guerra. Social development (Oxford. Print), 2000

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This study examined aggression and withdrawal as predictors of peer victimization. In addition, peer rejection was evaluated as both a moderator and mediator of these relations. The sample consisted of 1956 African-American, Hispanic, and White elementary school-aged boys and girls attending urban and inner-city schools that were classified as high or moderate disadvantage. Correlation and regression analyses revealed that aggression predicted both contemporaneous and longitudinal victimization by peers. This relation maintained across school disadvantage, ethnicity, age, and sex, andwas mediated by rejection. Withdrawal, mediated by rejection, predicted victimization for fourth graders only; withdrawal also reduced risk for victimization for low rejected children. The implications for understanding the dynamics of childhood victimization and intervention are discussed.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Aggressive Victims, Passive Victims, and Bullies: Developmental Continuity or Developmental Change? (2004, background): “Rejection is a social stressor that has repeatedly been associated with both aggressive behavior and victimization by peers, making its role as a correlate of both variables clear (e.g., French, 1988; Hanish & Guerra, 2000b; Hodges et al., 1997).”
Peer relations as a developmental context. (2011, background): “Nearly every study that has assessed the association between aggressiveness and victim ization has revealed a positive correlation (e.g., Camodeca, Goossens, Terwogt, & Schuengel, 2002; Hanish & Guerra, 2000, 2004; Hodges et al., 1997; Snyder et al., 2003).”
Bullying in schools: the power of bullies and the plight of victims. (2014, background): “Although a few studies have examined peer victimization in different ethnic groups (e.g., Hanish & Guerra 2000; also see Graham et al. 2009b), to our knowledge this is the first study to document the buffering effects of greater ethnic diversity.”
Does Hostile Attributional Bias for Relational Provocations Mediate the Short-Term Association between Relational Victimization and Aggression in Preadolescence? (2007, background): “There is growing longitudinal evidence that peer victimization predicts aggression in elementary school children (Hanish and Guerra, 2000; Khatri et al., 2000; Kochenderfer-Ladd, 2003); however, existing studies fail to distinguish between physical and relational forms of victimization and aggressio”
Behavioral inhibition: linking biology and behavior within a developmental framework. (2005, background): “239 Cortisol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Electroencephalogram, Event-Related Potentials, and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…”
Bullies and Victims in the Peer Ecology: Four Questions for Psychologists and School Professionals (2003, background): “…problems are minimized for youths who are not rejected, have many friends, or have friends who can provide protection (Hodges et al., 1997; see also Hanish & Guerra, 2000), and longitudinal evidence indicates that low peer rejection and protective friendships eliminate longitudinal associations…”
Peer Victimization and Social-Psychological Adjustment in Hispanic and African-American Children (2003, background): “Recently, Hanish and Guerra (2002) examined social-psychological adjustment prospectively in a primarily Hispanic (predominantly Mexican-American) and African-American sample of children.”
Peer victimization trajectories and their association with children’s affect in late elementary school (2010, result): “Whereas the findings fit with models of victimization and internalizing problems, the findings related to negative affect may also explain connections of victimization to externalizing problems (e.g., Hanish & Guerra, 2000).”
Understanding the psychology of bullying: Moving toward a social-ecological diathesis-stress model. (2015, unknown): “…Espelage & Holt, 2001; Graham, & Juvonen, 1998b), depression (e.g., Craig, 1998; Kaltiala-Heino et al., 1999), and suicidal ideation (Bonanno & Hymel, 2010; Kaltiala-Heino et al., 1999), as well as hyperactivity (Kumpulainen et al., 2001), delinquency, and aggression (e.g., Hanish & Guerra, 2000).”
Bullying and Victimization Among Boys and Girls in Middle School (2009, background): “…and externalizing difficulties as predictive risk factors for peer victimization (Hanish et al., 2004), and depression has been consistently associated with bullying in youth (Hanish & Guerra, 2000; Kaltiala-Heino, Rimpela, Rantanen, & Rimpela, 2000; Swearer, Grills, Haye, & Cary, 2004).”