Kawabata Yoshito, Onishi Ayako, Baquiano Marshaley J, Kinoshita Masahiro
Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Guam, UOG Station, Mangilao, GU 96913 USA.
Department of Human Sciences, Faculty of Letters, Konan University, 8-9-1 Okamoto, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-8501 Hyogo Japan.
J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2024 Mar 19;17(3):777-791. doi: 10.1007/s40653-024-00622-9. eCollection 2024 Sep.
Despite ample evidence supporting the association between relational and overt aggression and social-psychological adjustment problems, little is known about how this association occurs among adolescents in non-Western cultures. The present study examined whether potentially traumatic peer experience, such as forms of peer victimization (relational and overt), influences the longitudinal association between forms of aggression (relational and overt) and social-psychological adjustment problems (internalizing and externalizing) among Japanese adolescents. Gender differences in the mediation of peer victimization were also examined. Two hundred and eighty-one Japanese students from nine classrooms and two public middle schools participated in this study (Time 1 M age = 12.72, SD = .45, 50% female). Data included three time points one year apart (Grades 7, 8, and 9). Results of structural equation modeling indicated that higher relational aggression in Grade 7 was associated with more internalizing and externalizing problems in Grade 9. Notably, relational aggression was associated with internalizing problems, but not with externalizing problems, through relational victimization for both boys and girls. Overt aggression in Grade 7 was significantly associated with externalizing problems in Grade 9, but overt victimization did not mediate this association. On the other hand, overt aggression did not predict internalizing problems in Grade 9, but the indirect effect of overt victimization was found in this association. The findings inform us of the need to intervene with at-risk youth, regardless of gender, who use relational aggression, experience potentially traumatic relational victimization, and subsequently exhibit high levels of mental health and behavioral problems in Japan.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40653-024-00622-9.
尽管有充分证据支持关系攻击和公开攻击与社会心理适应问题之间的关联，但对于这种关联在非西方文化中的青少年中如何发生却知之甚少。本研究调查了潜在创伤性同伴经历，如同伴受害形式（关系型和公开型），是否会影响日本青少年中攻击形式（关系型和公开型）与社会心理适应问题（内化和外化）之间的纵向关联。还研究了同伴受害中介作用中的性别差异。来自九间教室和两所公立中学的281名日本学生参与了本研究（时间1平均年龄 = 12.72，标准差 = 0.45，50%为女生）。数据包括相隔一年的三个时间点（七年级、八年级和九年级）。结构方程模型结果表明，七年级较高的关系攻击与九年级更多的内化和外化问题相关。值得注意的是，对于男孩和女孩来说，关系攻击通过关系型受害与内化问题相关，但与外化问题无关。七年级的公开攻击与九年级的外化问题显著相关，但公开型受害并未介导这种关联。另一方面，公开攻击并未预测九年级的内化问题，但在这种关联中发现了公开型受害的间接效应。这些发现让我们认识到，在日本，有必要对那些使用关系攻击、经历潜在创伤性的关系型受害并随后表现出高水平心理健康和行为问题的高危青少年进行干预，无论其性别如何。
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