title: Prospective associations between peer victimization and aggression.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110, USA. jostrov@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Jamie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ostrov
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D019370:Observation; D010379:Peer Group; D010553:Personality Development; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors