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Development of the multidimensional peer‐victimization scale
Author(s) -
Mynard Helen,
Joseph Stephen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
aggressive behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1098-2337
pISSN - 0096-140X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(2000)26:2<169::aid-ab3>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , peer victimization , aggression , scale (ratio) , categorization , developmental psychology , scapegoating , internal consistency , clinical psychology , social psychology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , psychometrics , medicine , medical emergency , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , politics , political science , law
Although researchers have traditionally distinguished between direct (e.g., name‐calling, hitting) and indirect (e.g., ignoring, scapegoating) types of peer‐victimization, there remains disagreement concerning how best to categorize types of peer‐victimization. The aim of the present study was to delineate, using Principal Components Analysis, types of peer‐victimization and to develop a multidimensional psychometric self‐report scale. Respondents were 812 children aged 11 to 16 years and attending a secondary school in England. Once it was established that respondents were familiar with a definition of bullying, they rated how often they had experienced 45 different victimizing acts. Four main factors were identified—physical victimization, verbal victimization, social manipulation, and attacks on property—and subscales constructed that possessed satisfactory internal consistency and convergent validity with self‐reports of being bullied. Aggr. Behav. 26:169–178, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.