Citation

Felix ED, Holt MK, Nylund-Gibson K, Grimm RP, Espelage DL, Green JG. Psychol. Violence 2019; 9(4): 451-460.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/vio0000193

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We examined latent classes of retrospective reports of childhood peer victimization/aggression and how these classes related to subsequent risk for victimization and aggression at college.

METHOD: First-year students from four universities (N = 428; 73.6% female) provided retrospective reports of childhood peer victimization and aggression at initial college entry and reported on subsequent victimization and aggression over the course of the first year of college.

RESULTS: A latent class analysis for childhood peer victimization/aggression supported four classes of students: High Victimization and Aggression (12.3%), High Victimization/Low Aggression (20.0%), High Relational Victimization and Relational Aggression (30.8%), and Low Involvement (36.9%). Students in the High Victimization and Aggression class were more likely to experience hazing and sexual victimization compared with the Low Involvement class. A latent class analysis of college victimization/aggression revealed Low Involvement and Medium/High Involvement groups. Latent transition analysis demonstrated that most participants in each childhood latent class transitioned into the Low Involvement class. However, there was also support for college revictimization/aggression risk for those most highly involved in childhood peer victimization/aggression.

CONCLUSION: Students with high levels of childhood peer victimization/aggression incur somewhat greater risk for victimization and aggression in college, but overall, most students transitioned to low involvement in college. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)

Language: en