Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2023 Oct;35(4):1756-1774. doi: 10.1017/S0954579422000426. Epub 2022 May 16.
Children's peer victimization trajectories and their longitudinal associations with externalizing and internalizing problems were investigated from Grades 2 to 5. Secondary data analysis was performed with the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K-2011; = 13,860, = 8.1 years old in the spring of Grade 2; 51.1% male, 46.7% White, 13.2% African-American, 25.3% Hispanic or Latino, 8.5% Asian, and 6.1% other or biracial). Children who experienced high and persistent levels of peer victimization (high-chronic victims) exhibited co-occurring externalizing and internalizing problems. Moreover, among high-chronic victims, boys had a more pronounced increase in their externalizing trajectories, and girls had greater increases in their social anxiety trajectories. In contrast, those with decreasing peer victimization across time exhibited signs of recovery, particularly with respect to their social anxiety. These findings elucidated how chronic, increasing, and decreasing victims exhibited distinct patterns in the co-occurring development of their externalizing and internalizing problems, and how findings varied depending on the form of problem behavior and by child sex.
本研究旨在调查儿童在 2 至 5 年级期间同伴侵害的轨迹及其与外化和内化问题的纵向关联。研究采用了《儿童纵向研究》（ECLS-K-2011；N = 13860，2 年级春季时的平均年龄为 8.1 岁；51.1%为男性，46.7%为白人，13.2%为非裔美国人，25.3%为西班牙裔或拉丁裔，8.5%为亚洲人，6.1%为其他或混血儿）的二次数据分析。经历高且持续的同伴侵害（高慢性侵害者）的儿童表现出同时存在的外化和内化问题。此外，在高慢性侵害者中，男孩的外化轨迹增长更为明显，而女孩的社交焦虑轨迹增长更为明显。相比之下，那些随着时间的推移而减少同伴侵害的儿童则表现出恢复的迹象，特别是在社交焦虑方面。这些发现阐明了慢性、递增和递减的侵害者在同时出现的外化和内化问题发展中表现出不同的模式，以及研究结果如何因问题行为的形式和儿童性别而异。
