peer victimization
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpeerandvictimization
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peer
noun[C]
uk/pɪər/us/pɪr/
a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in ...
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victimization
noun[U]
uk/ˌvɪk.tɪ.maɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌvɪk.tə.məˈzeɪ.ʃən/
the act of victimizing someone (= treating ...
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These findings are robust but the developmental processes underlying the connections betweenpeervictimizationand psychopathology remain unclear.
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Aggression and delinquent behaviors could also be characterized as maladaptive coping strategies to deal with the emotional arousal created bypeervictimizationexperiences.
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With regard to aggression, few studies investigatingpeervictimizationas a risk factor for aggression have included separate constructs for physical and relational aggression.
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Using a sample of 506 6-year-old twins,peervictimizationwas assessed through peer nominations and aggressive behavior was assessed through peer and teacher reports.
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Implications for future research onpeervictimizationand intervention with young victimized children are discussed.
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How mightpeervictimizationexacerbate a child's behavioral maladjustment?
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For boys,peervictimizationwas related to aggression regardless of the child's genetic risk for such behavior.
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Results also provided support for the notion of a gene-environment interaction betweenpeervictimization and child's genetic risk for aggressive behavior, albeit only in girls.
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Rather than being an isolated and rare occurrence,peervictimizationoccurs quite frequently among youth.
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Accordingly, this study examined whether the link betweenpeervictimizationand child aggression is moderated by children's genetic risk for such behavior.
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Aggression andpeervictimizationas predictors of self-reported behavioral and emotional adjustment.
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Thus, in the present study, we tested regulation, aggression, and withdrawal as mediators of the relations of anxiety0 sadness and anger topeervictimization.
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Stress and coping theories suggest that stressful events such aspeervictimizationmay result in negative emotional arousal thereby leading to drug use.
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Thus, earlypeervictimizationis a risk factor for later increases in these problems and may play in incremental role in their development.
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In this investigation, predictive relations betweenpeervictimizationand each of these two general groupings of problematic child behaviors were examined.
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It is easy to imagine howpeervictimizationcould result in serious adjustment problems.
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Thus,peervictimizationpredicted a range of adjustment problems, and there was heterogeneity in the types of outcomes that children experienced.
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Negative emotions andpeervictimizationplace boys and girls at heightened risk for victimization may also vary.
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Thus, it is unknown whetherpeervictimizationremains unrelated to individual genetic dispositions in older children.
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