Citation

Hanish LD, Eisenberg N, Fabes RA, Spinrad TL, Ryan P, Schmidt S. Dev. Psychopathol. 2004; 16(2): 335-353.

Affiliation

Arizona State University, Department of Family and Human Development, Tempe 85287-2502, USA. Laura.Hanish@asu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15487599

Abstract

Using a short-term longitudinal design, internalizing and externalizing emotions were examined as risk factors for being victimized by peers in early childhood. Regulation, aggression, and withdrawal were also tested as mediators. We found that anger, mediated by aggression and regulation, positively predicted being victimized, although the way in which anger related to victimization risk varied for boys and girls and across time. These findings were robust, particularly for girls, attesting to the importance of externalizing variables as risk factors for young children's victimization. Support for internalizing variables as risk factors for being victimized was weak. The implications of the findings for developmental models connecting symptomatology and victimization are discussed.

Language: en