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Prospective Associations Between Peer Victimization and Aggression
Author(s) -
Ostrov Jamie M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01501.x
Subject(s) - aggression , psychology , peer victimization , developmental psychology , extant taxon , longitudinal study , path analysis (statistics) , injury prevention , peer group , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , peer relations , clinical psychology , medical emergency , medicine , statistics , mathematics , pathology , evolutionary biology , biology
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.