Prospective relations between children's responses to peer victimization and their socioemotional adjustment

Peer Victimization, Depressive Symptoms, and Rule-Breaking Behavior in Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Peer Social Support

“…Although peer social support has been shown to buffer the effects of peer victimization in some instances (e.g., Hodges et al 1999), the current findings suggest that it is important to consider the behavioral characteristics of the victimized youth's friends in addition to their perceived levels of social support. This point is especially salient when taken together with previous findings indicating that social support seeking may increase victimized youth's risk of internalizing problems (e.g., Visconti and Troop-Gordon 2010) and that peer social support may increase victims' risk for internalizing and externalizing problems (e.g., Davidson and Demaray 2007;Desjardins and Leadbeater 2011).…”

“…Another study found that high levels of peer social support predicted increased depressive symptoms six years later among adolescents (Desjardins and Leadbeater 2011), and high attachment to peers in early adolescence has been shown to exacerbate the link between peer victimization and depressive symptoms over a six-year period (Vassallo et al 2014). Moreover, two studies have demonstrated that social support seeking is associated with increases in internalizing symptoms of anxiety, loneliness (Visconti and Troop-Gordon 2010), and depression (Holt and Espelage 2007) among victimized children and adolescents.…”

Prosocial Behavior as a Protective Factor for Children’s Peer Victimization

“…Thus, the act of avoiding as a method of coping with victimization for girls may lead to negative social consequences. Conversely, boys able to use avoidance as a coping strategy may allow them time to decrease tension and thus can be construed as a positive social behavior (Visconti & Troop-Gordon, 2010). These findings suggest that the effects of engaging in certain coping strategies may be different for girls and boys.…”

Emotional sensitivity before and after coping with rejection: A longitudinal study

“…Moreover, most studies have been cross-sectional and able to conclude that there are interrelations, rather than providing evidence of temporal associations. Even when studies have the advantage of a longitudinal design (e.g., Calvete et al, 2011;Sugimura et al, 2013;Vanhalst et al, 2012;Visconti & Troop-Gordon, 2010), none have analyzed more then two waves of data. This is limiting, as it restricts the capacity to examine transactional associations over time.…”