Citation

Schwartz D, Chang L, Farver JM. Dev. Psychol. 2001; 37(4): 520-532.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11444487

Abstract

This study reports a cross-sectional investigation of the behavioral and academic correlates of victimization in Chinese children's peer groups. The participants were 296 children (161 boys and 135 girls; mean age = 11.5 years) from Tianjin, China. Multi-informant assessments (peer nominations, teacher ratings, and self-reports) of peer victimization, aggression, submissiveness-withdrawal, assertiveness-prosociability, and academic functioning were obtained. Structural equation models indicated that peer victimization was associated with poor academic functioning, submissive-withdrawn behavior, aggression, and low levels of assertive-prosocial behavior. These findings suggest that there is considerable similarity in the social processes underlying peer group victimization across Chinese and Western cultural settings.

Language: en