title: Interpersonal and personal antecedents and consequences of peer victimization across middle childhood in Hong Kong.
abstract: Although much is known about peer victimization, the majority of the longitudinal research in this area has been restricted to Western settings. The main objective of this study was to examine the interpersonal (rejection) and personal (withdrawal, aggression) antecedents and consequences of victimization for Chinese children living in Hong Kong. A sample of 1,058 children (501 boys; M age = 9.5 years) in Hong Kong was followed longitudinally from the 3rd and 4th grades to the 7th and 8th grades. Consistent with a transactional framework, rejection and withdrawal contributed to, as well as resulted from, victimization. Although victimization predicted later aggression, aggression was unrelated to later victimization. These findings closely replicate past research conducted in North America and European settings, and suggest considerable correspondence in the links between maladaptive child characteristics and victimization across Western and Hong Kong schools.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD, 20742, USA, wangjenn@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Mylien
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Duong
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Tana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012931:Social Environment