Citation

Marsh HW, Craven RG, Parker PD, Parada RH, Guo J, Dicke T, Abduljabbar AS. Dev. Psychol. 2016; 52(12): 1994-2009.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, King Saud University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/dev0000241

PMID

27893244

Abstract

The temporal ordering of depression, aggression, and victimization has important implications for theory, policy, and practice. For a representative sample of high school students (Grades 7-10; N = 3,793) who completed the same psychometrically strong, multiitem scales 6 times over a 2-year period, there were reciprocal effects between relational-aggression and relational-victimization factors: aggression led to subsequent victimization and victimization led to subsequent aggression. After controlling for prior depression, aggression, and victimization, depression had a positive effect on subsequent victimization, but victimization had no effect on subsequent depression. Aggression neither affected nor was affected by depression. The results suggest that depression is a selection factor that leads to victimization, but that victimization has little or no effect on subsequent depression beyond what can be explained by the preexisting depression. In support of developmental equilibrium, the results were consistent across the 6 waves. (PsycINFO Database Record

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