title: The relationships of family and classroom environments with peer relational victimization: an analysis of their gender differences.
abstract: This study analyzes the relationships of adolescents' perceptions of their family and classroom environments with peer relational victimization, taking into account that these relationships could be mediated by adolescents' self-esteem, feelings of loneliness, and sociometric status. These relationships, and their possible gender differences, were analyzed in a sample of 1319 Spanish adolescents (48% boys and 52% girls), ages 11 to 16 years (M = 13.7, SD = 1.5). A structural equation modeling was calculated for boys and girls separately. The findings suggested that the adolescents' self-esteem, loneliness, and sociometric status had a significant direct effect on peer relational victimization for boys, and adolescents' loneliness and sociometric status for girls. Their perceptions of family and classroom environments had a significant indirect effect on peer relational victimization for boys and girls, but the paths were different. Overall, findings suggested that a negative classroom environment had a more relevant effect in relational victimization for boys.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Social, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 21. 46010 Valencia, Spain. Maria.J.Cava@uv.es
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jesús Cava
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Musitu
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buelga
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murgui
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D019548:Crime Victims; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification; D012944:Social Support; D012963:Sociometric Techniques; D013223:Statistics as Topic