title: A model of childhood perceived peer harassment: analyses of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth Data.
abstract: The authors developed a model of childhood perceived peer harassment, using several personality, peer, and familial characteristics of victims, and tested it with children 10 to 11 years old (N = 3,434) drawn from the Canadian National Survey of Children and Youth, which is a stratified random sample of 22,831 households in Canada. A 3-step analytic procedure with 3 separate subsamples of the children was used to explore psychosocial correlates of peer harassment. Results from the latent variable path analysis (comparative fit index = .90) showed that victims are likely to feel anxious and disliked by their peers. Their parents reported using high levels of control and low levels of warmth with their children and reported high levels of depression and marital conflict themselves. These results are discussed from a social-cognitive perspective.
authors.affiliation: Division of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4. tnaberan@ucalgary.ca
authors.forename: Tanya N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Beran
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Violato
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D019548:Crime Victims; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology; D010379:Peer Group; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires