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Peer Victimization, Self‐esteem, and Ego Resilience Types in Adolescents: A Prospective Analysis of Person‐context Interactions
Author(s) -
Overbeek Geertjan,
Zeevalkink Herma,
Vermulst Ad,
Scholte Ron H.J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
social development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.078
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1467-9507
pISSN - 0961-205X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00535.x
Subject(s) - psychology , moderation , self esteem , victimisation , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , context (archaeology) , psychological resilience , peer victimization , personality , peer group , poison control , injury prevention , social psychology , medicine , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , environmental health , biology
This study examined bidirectional, longitudinal associations between peer victimisation and self‐esteem in adolescents, and tested for moderator effects of undercontrolling, overcontrolling, and ego‐resilient personality types in these associations. Data were used from 774 adolescents ages 11–16 years who participated in a three‐wave (i.e., 2005, 2006, and 2007) longitudinal study. Structural equation modelling analyses in Mplus demonstrated that, controlling for earlier levels of self‐esteem, self‐reported peer victimization was associated with lower self‐esteem across one‐year time intervals. Vice versa , however, low self‐esteem was not predictive of subsequent self‐reported victimization. Evidence was also found for a moderator effect of personality type on the longitudinal associations between self‐esteem and victimization. Only in the subgroup of overcontrolling adolescents was lower self‐esteem related to subsequently higher levels of peer victimization; their undercontrolling and ego‐resilient peers were unaffected.