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Bullying and Victimization Trajectories in the First Years of Secondary Education: Implications for Status and Affection.
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Journal of youth and adolescence [J Youth Adolesc] 2021 Oct; Vol. 50 (10), pp. 1995-2006. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 19. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Bullying is known to be associated with social status, but it remains unclear how bullying involvement over time relates to social position (status and affection), especially in the first years at a new school. The aim of this study was to investigate whether (the development of) bullying and victimization was related to the attainment of status (perceived popularity) and affection (friendships, acceptance, rejection) in the first years of secondary education (six waves). Using longitudinal data spanning the first- and second year of secondary education of 824 adolescents (51.5% girls; M <subscript>age</subscript> T1 = 12.54, SD = 0.45) in the SNARE-study, joint bullying and victimization trajectories were estimated using parallel Latent Class Growth Analysis (LCGA). The four trajectories (decreasing bully, stable high bully, decreasing victim, uninvolved) were related to adolescents' social position using multigroup analysis that examined differences in slope and intercepts (T1 and T6) of social positions, and indicated that the relative social position of the different joint trajectories was determined at the start of secondary education and did not change over time, with one exception: adolescents continuing bullying were besides being popular also increasingly rejected over time. Although bullying is functional behavior that serves to optimize adolescents' social position, anti-bullying interventions may account for the increasing lack of affection that may hinder bullies' long-term social development.<br /> (© 2021. The Author(s).)
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Female
Friends
Humans
Infant
Male
Pleasure
Schools
Bullying
Crime Victims
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1573-6601
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of youth and adolescence
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33464443
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01385-w