Stability of peer victimization: A meta-analysis of longitudinal research

Pouwels, J. Loes; Souren, Pierre M.; Lansu, Tessa A. M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.

doi:10.1016/j.dr.2016.01.001

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“…Another limitation of the small sample was that bullies/followers were combined into one group. Previous research has shown that adolescent bullies, assistants, and reinforcers show a status and behavioral profile that is relatively similar, which justifies that the groups were combined (Pouwels, Lansu et al., ). However, there are some small differences between bullies, assistants, and reinforcers.…”

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“…Unfortunately, many programs, including those that target bullying at the group level, show a decline in efficacy from primary to secondary school (Kärnä et al., ; Yeager, Fong, Lee, & Espelage, ). In addition, the stability of peer‐reported victimization increases with age (Pouwels, Souren et al., ). Together, these findings highlight the need for early intervention and prevention before victimization becomes chronic and difficult to change (Hanish & Guerra, ; Rueger et al., ; Smith et al., ).…”

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Predicting Adolescents’ Bullying Participation from Developmental Trajectories of Social Status and Behavior

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Salmivalli

Saarento

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Child Development

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The aim of this study was to determine how trajectory clusters of social status (social preference and perceived popularity) and behavior (direct aggression and prosocial behavior) from age 9 to age 14 predicted adolescents' bullying participant roles at age 16 and 17 (n = 266). Clusters were identified with multivariate growth mixture modeling (GMM). The findings showed that participants' developmental trajectories of social status and social behavior across childhood and early adolescence predicted their bullying participant role involvement in adolescence. Practical implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.

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Predicting Adolescents’ Bullying Participation from Developmental Trajectories of Social Status and Behavior

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Salmivalli

Saarento

et al. 2017

Child Development

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“…Given that peer victimization is only moderately stable across adolescence (see Pouwels, Souren, Lansu, & Cillessen, for review), these negative social experiences may “come and go” rather unsystematically across time for many youth (Hoover, Oliver, & Hazler, ). As such, in addition to making comparisons across individuals (Abela & Hankin, ), it is equally important to consider adolescents’ experiences of victimization from an idiographic perspective (Zeiders, Umaña‐Taylor, Updegraff, & Jahromi, ).…”

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Dynamic Changes in Peer Victimization and Adjustment Across Middle School: Does Friends’ Victimization Alleviate Distress?

Schacter

Juvonen

2018

Child Development

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Although some adolescents are chronically bullied throughout middle school, others may only experience peer victimization temporarily. This study examined the effects of time-invariant (average level) and time-varying (year-to-year) victimization experiences across middle school on adolescents' depressive symptoms, somatic complaints, and self-blame. A key question was whether friends' victimization buffered students from their victimization-related distress. The diverse sample (n = 5,991) was surveyed four times between sixth and eighth grade (M at sixth grade = 11.54 years). Three-level multilevel models revealed both time-invariant and time-varying effects of victimization on adjustment, but these maladaptive associations were attenuated when adolescents' friends experienced more victimization across middle school. The results suggest that even temporarily victimized youth may have unmet mental health needs, and sharing social plight with friends can protect victims.

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“…Researchers have indicated that peer victimization can be quite stable over time (Pouwels, Souren, Lansu, & Cillessen, ) and that the duration of victimization plays an important role in psychological (mal)adjustment of targets of peer aggression (e.g., Scholte, Engels, Overbeck, deKemp, & Haselager, ). Stability in this case refers to the repetition of incidents of peer victimization for a student over a given period.…”

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A meta‐analysis of the differential relations of traditional and cyber‐victimization with internalizing problems

Gini

Card

Pozzoli

2017

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This meta-analysis examined the associations between cyber-victimization and internalizing problems controlling for the occurrence of traditional victimization. Twenty independent samples with a total of 90,877 participants were included. Results confirmed the significant intercorrelation between traditional and cyber-victimization (r = .43). They both have medium-to-large bivariate correlations with internalizing problems. Traditional victimization (sr = .22) and cyber-victimization (sr = .12) were also uniquely related to internalizing problems. The difference in the relations between each type of victimization and internalizing problems was small (differential d = .06) and not statistically significant (p = .053). Moderation of these effect sizes by sample characteristics (e.g., age and proportion of girls) and study features (e.g., whether a definition of bullying was provided to participants and the time frame used as reference) was investigated. Results are discussed within the extant literature on cyber-aggression and cyber-victimization and future directions are proposed.

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Stability of peer victimization: A meta-analysis of longitudinal research

Cited by 83 publications

References 115 publications

Predicting Adolescents’ Bullying Participation from Developmental Trajectories of Social Status and Behavior

Predicting Adolescents’ Bullying Participation from Developmental Trajectories of Social Status and Behavior

Dynamic Changes in Peer Victimization and Adjustment Across Middle School: Does Friends’ Victimization Alleviate Distress?

A meta‐analysis of the differential relations of traditional and cyber‐victimization with internalizing problems

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