Relational Victimization and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescents PDF Download

Author: Kate J. Zelic
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Category : Adolescent psychopathology
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Research has consistently demonstrated the relationship between peer victimization and internalizing symptoms. More recently, there has been emphasis on distinguishing between other forms of victimization, such as relational victimization and cyberbullying. The purpose of the current study was to further examine relational victimization and internalizing symptoms in adolescents and to examine potential variables (rumination, co-rumination, and gender) that may moderate this relationship. One hundred twenty seven adolescents completed measures of relational victimization, depressive symptoms, social anxiety symptoms, rumination, and co-rumination at two time points that were six months apart. A new measure of relational victimization, the Relational Victimization Questionnaire, was developed. Multiple regression analyses indicated that cyberbullying was predictive of higher levels of depressive symptoms over time and that social manipulation was predictive of higher levels of general social avoidance and distress over time. Further, there was a significant interaction between cyberbullying and gender in the prediction of depressive symptoms, general social avoidance and distress, and social avoidance and distress of new situations. Thus, these findings add to the limited extant literature on the longitudinal negative effects of cyberbullying and the distinct negative effects of social manipulation on adolescents.

Author: Tess Katherine Drazdowski
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Languages : en
Pages : 89

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The purpose of this study was to examine the bidirectional relations between anxious and depressive symptoms and two forms of peer victimization (i.e., overt and relational) within a sample of 358 predominantly African-American adolescents living in low-income urban areas across four years. Longitudinal path analyses tested progressively complex models for each type of victimization. For both overt and relational victimization the autoregressive model where only previous levels of each construct predicted future levels of the construct was the most parsimonious explanation. The best fitting model for both types of peer victimization suggested that internalizing symptoms helped to further explain future victimization, but victimization did not help to further explain future internalizing symptoms. Additionally, anxious symptoms were more uniquely important in predicting future peer victimization than depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that the patterns between peer victimization and internalizing symptoms may be missing an important predictor when anxiety is not considered.

Author: Jeremy Samuel Cohen
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Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Objective: This study examined whether overt and relational peer victimization were associated with the severity of Social Phobia (SoP) symptoms and whether frequent victimization was more common among youth with SoP as compared to youth with other anxiety disorders. In addition, the study examined whether self-esteem, peer beliefs, and emotional lability were linked to internalizing symptoms above and beyond overt and relational victimization severity. Method: Participants were 90 youth (47 boys, 43 girls; M age = 11.06 years; SD = 3.09) and their parents. Youth had been referred to an outpatient child and adolescent anxiety disorders clinic. Measures included (a) a semi-structured diagnostic interview, (b) youth self-report forms assessing peer victimization, anxiety, depressive symptoms, loneliness, and global self-worth, and (c) parent-report forms assessing anxiety and emotion regulation. Results: Results showed a concurrent positive association between peer victimization and self-reported social anxiety, with relational victimization providing unique information above and beyond overt victimization. Peer victimization was not associated with a specific diagnosis, but was related to multiple internalizing problems (negative beliefs about the peer group accounted for some of this relation). Conclusions: Peer victimization is important to assess for and consider in the treatment of childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders. Peer victimization is associated with social anxiety symptoms, and relational victimization, in particular, is associated with internalizing problems among youth with anxiety disorders. Victimization appears to be associated with symptomatology rather than diagnosis.

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030944070X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must have "asked for" this type of treatment, or deserved it. Sometimes, even the child who is bullied begins to internalize this idea. For many years, there has been a general acceptance and collective shrug when it comes to a child or adolescent with greater social capital or power pushing around a child perceived as subordinate. But bullying is not developmentally appropriate; it should not be considered a normal part of the typical social grouping that occurs throughout a child's life. Although bullying behavior endures through generations, the milieu is changing. Historically, bulling has occurred at school, the physical setting in which most of childhood is centered and the primary source for peer group formation. In recent years, however, the physical setting is not the only place bullying is occurring. Technology allows for an entirely new type of digital electronic aggression, cyberbullying, which takes place through chat rooms, instant messaging, social media, and other forms of digital electronic communication. Composition of peer groups, shifting demographics, changing societal norms, and modern technology are contextual factors that must be considered to understand and effectively react to bullying in the United States. Youth are embedded in multiple contexts and each of these contexts interacts with individual characteristics of youth in ways that either exacerbate or attenuate the association between these individual characteristics and bullying perpetration or victimization. Recognizing that bullying behavior is a major public health problem that demands the concerted and coordinated time and attention of parents, educators and school administrators, health care providers, policy makers, families, and others concerned with the care of children, this report evaluates the state of the science on biological and psychosocial consequences of peer victimization and the risk and protective factors that either increase or decrease peer victimization behavior and consequences.

Author: Laura Cuttini
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Languages : en
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"Peer victimization is a common and potentially harmful experience for early adolescents, and youth with symptoms of anxiety and depression are particularly likely to be provoked by their peers. How youth respond when they are victimized can impact whether the provocation continues; as such, the greater victimization experienced by youth with depressive and anxious symptoms may be explained, at least in part, by maladaptive responses to peer provocation. In this dissertation, I tested the associations between anxious and depressive symptoms and youth's reported responses to physical, verbal, and relational provocation by a peer, including assertive, avoidant, and aggressive behaviours, and telling an adult. Participants were a community sample of youth in Grade 7 (N = 687, M age = 12.96). Annual assessments were collected for three consecutive years. Chapter 3 examined the psychometric properties of the Peer Provocation Inventory - Multiple Choice. Test-retest reliability of the measure was adequate, that youth's responses shared the expected associations with peer nominations of their behaviour, and that the underlying factor structure of the measure was broadly consistent with previous analyses. Study 1 assessed the situation specificity of youth's responses to provocation by a peer, as well as the concurrent associations between responses and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Type of provocation accounted for more variance in responding than did individual-level variables. Measured continuously, greater depressive symptoms were associated with lower endorsement of assertive strategies and greater selection of aggressive and assertive-aggressive strategies; whereas higher anxious symptoms were associated with lower endorsement of aggressive responses, suggesting that anxiety may be associated with less problematic responding than is depression. Youth with high levels of both depressive and anxious symptoms, measured categorically, showed a decreased tendency to endorse assertive responses, similar to those with depressive symptoms alone, but did not show an elevated tendency to endorse aggressive or assertive-aggressive responses, pointing to a possible protective role of concomitant anxious symptoms. Study 2 examined the normative trajectories of reported responses from Grades 7 to 9, as well as whether (a) Grade 7 symptoms of anxiety and depression and (b) longitudinal trajectories of these symptoms predicted changes in responding over time. On average, assertive and avoidant responding increased over time, aggressive and assertive-aggressive responding were stable, and telling an adult decreased. The associations between depressive symptoms in Grade 7 and trajectories of response endorsement were often moderated by anxious symptoms. Finally, as depressive and anxious symptoms increased over time, assertive responding decreased, suggesting a possible target for intervention. This dissertation contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it lends further support to the importance of measuring behaviour with respect to key situations. It also suggests that the interpersonal behaviours linked to elevated levels of both depressive and anxious symptoms may differ from those associated with either type of symptom alone. Finally, this dissertation showed through both concurrent and longitudinal examinations that youth with depressive symptoms may be particularly at risk for engaging in maladaptive responses to victimization from peers." --

Author: William Francis Boyce
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Thomas P. Gullotta
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489974970
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 717

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The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems clarifies the current state of treatment and prevention through comprehensive examinations of mental disorders and dysfunctional behaviors as well as the varied forces affecting their development. New or revised chapters offer a basic framework for approaching mental health concerns in youth and provide the latest information on how conditions (e.g., bipolar disorder, suicidality, and OCD) and behaviors (e.g., sex offenses, gang activities, dating violence, and self-harm) manifest in adolescents. Each chapter offers diagnostic guidance, up-to-date findings on prevalence, biological/genetic aspects, risk and resilience factors, and a practical review of prevention and treatment methods. Best-practice recommendations clearly differentiate among what works, what might work, what doesn't work, and what needs further research across modalities, including pharmacotherapy. Key topics addressed include: Families and adolescent development. Adolescent mental health and the DSM-5. Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. Autism spectrum disorder. Media and technology addiction. School failure versus school success. Bullying and cyberbullying. The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavior Problems is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, allied practitioners and professionals, and graduate students in school and clinical child psychology, education, pediatrics, psychiatry, social work, school counseling, and public health.

Author: Ellen A. Skinner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319417401
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This book traces the development of coping from birth to emerging adulthood by building a conceptual and empirical bridge between coping and the development of regulation and resilience. It offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing the developmental study of coping, including the history of the concept, critiques of current coping theories and research, and reviews of age differences and changes in coping during childhood and adolescence. It integrates multiple strands of cutting-edge theory and research, including work on the development of stress neurophysiology, attachment, emotion regulation, and executive functions. In addition, chapters track how coping develops, starting from birth and following its progress across multiple qualitative shifts during childhood and adolescence. The book identifies factors that shape the development of coping, focusing on the effects of underlying neurobiological changes, social relationships, and stressful experiences. Qualitative shifts are emphasized and explanatory factors highlight multiple entry points for the diagnosis of problems and implementation of remedial and preventive interventions. Topics featured in this text include: Developmental conceptualizations of coping, such as action regulation under stress. Neurophysiological developments that underlie age-related shifts in coping. How coping is shaped by early adversity, temperament, and attachment. How parenting and family factors affect the development of coping. The role of coping in the development of psychopathology and resilience. The Development of Coping is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, public health, counseling, personality and social psychology, and neurophysiological psychology as well as prevention and intervention science.

Author: Sarah M. Coyne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491833
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Research over the last few decades has revealed that individuals use a variety of mechanisms to hurt one another, many of which are not physical in nature. In this volume, editors Sarah M. Coyne and Jamie M. Ostrov turn their focus on relational aggression, behavior that is intended to cause harm to another individual's relationships or social standing in the group (e.g., gossiping, social exclusion, and spreading malicious rumors). Unlike physical aggression, the scars of relational aggression are more difficult to detect. However, victims (and their aggressors) may experience strong and long-lasting consequences, including reduced self-esteem, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and more. Over the past 25 years, there has been a growing body of literature on relational aggression and other non-physical forms of aggression that have focused predominantly on gender differences, development, and risk and protective factors. In this volume, the focus turns to the development of relational aggression during childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. Here, Coyne, Ostrov, and their contributing authors examine a number of risk factors and socializing agents or models (e.g., parenting, peers, media, the classroom) that lead to the development of relational aggression over time. An understanding of how these behaviors develop will inform readers of important intervention strategies to curb the use of relational aggression in schools, peer groups, and in family relationships. The Development of Relational Aggression provides scholars, researchers, practitioners, students, and parents with an extensive resource that will help move the field forward in our understanding of the development of relational aggression for the future.

Author: Heidi Vandebosch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030049604
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book describes innovative ways to do research about, and design interventions for, cyberbullying by children and adolescents. It does this by taking a narrative approach. How can narrative research methods complement the mostly quantitative methods (e.g. surveys, experiments, ....) in cyberbullying research ? And how can stories be used to inform young people about the issue and empower them? Throughout the book, special attention is paid to new information and communication technologies, and the opportunities ICTs provide for narrative research (e.g. as a source of naturally occurring stories on cyberbullying), and for narrative health interventions (e.g. via Influencers). The book thus integrates research and insights from the fields of cyberbullying, narrative methods, narrative health communication, and new information and communication technologies.