@article{ref1,
title="Friendships with peers who are low or high in aggression as moderators of the link between peer victimization and declines in academic functioning",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2008",
author="Schwartz, David and Gorman, Andrea Hopmeyer and Dodge, Kenneth A. and Pettit, Gregory S. and Bates, John E.",
volume="36",
number="5",
pages="719-730",
abstract="This paper reports two prospective investigations of the role of friendship in the relation between peer victimization and grade point averages (GPA). Study 1 included 199 children (105 boys, 94 girls; mean age of 9.1 years) and Study 2 included 310 children (151 boys, 159 girls; mean age of 8.5 years). These children were followed for two school years. In both projects, we assessed aggression, victimization, and friendship with a peer nomination inventory, and we obtained children's GPAs from a review of school records. Peer victimization was associated with academic declines only when children had either a high number of friends who were above the classroom mean on aggression or a low number of friends who were below the classroom mean on aggression. These results highlight the importance of aggression levels among friends for the academic adjustment of victimized children.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-007-9200-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9200-x"
}