title: Mutual long-term effects of school bullying, victimization, and justice sensitivity in adolescents.
abstract: In the present study, we investigate long-term relations between experiences of aggression at school and the development of justice sensitivity as a personality disposition in adolescents. We assessed justice sensitivity (from the victim, observer, and perpetrator perspective), bullying, and victimization among 565 German 12- to 18-year-olds in a one-year longitudinal study with two measurement points. Latent path analyses revealed gender differences in long-term effects of bullying and victimization on observer sensitivity and victim sensitivity. Experiences of victimization at T1 predicted an increase in victim sensitivity among girls and a decrease in victim sensitivity among boys. Bullying behavior at T1 predicted an increase in victim sensitivity among boys and a decrease in observer sensitivity among girls. We did not find long-term effects of justice sensitivity on bullying and victimization. Our findings indicate that experiences of bullying and victimization have gender-specific influences on the development of moral personality dispositions in adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Germany. Electronic address: rebecca.bondue@uni-potsdam.de.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bondü
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rothmund
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gollwitzer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000374:Aggression; D058445:Bullying; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Adolescence; Bullying; Justice sensitivity; Personality development; Victimization