Citation

Brendgen MR. J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. 2018; 46(1): 5-9.

Affiliation

Ste-Justine Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Brendgen.Mara@uqam.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10802-017-0347-9

PMID

28936797

Abstract

A substantive number of children and adolescents are bullied by their peers, with serious risks for the victims' emotional, behavioral, physical, and academic adjustment. However, while the immediate and short-term consequences of peer victimization in childhood and adolescence are very well documented, knowledge about the potential long-term consequences for victims' functioning once they reach adulthood is only slowly emerging. Based on prospective, longitudinal data from different countries, the 4 papers in this special section investigate the association between peer victimization suffered in childhood and adolescence and victims' developmental outcomes in late adolescence/early adulthood. This introduction highlights the major findings of each paper and discusses the implications for future research.

Language: en

Keywords

Adulthood; Childhood and adolescence; Outcomes; Peer victimization