@article{ref1,
title="Concurrent and longitudinal links between friendship and peer victimization: implications for befriending interventions",
journal="Journal of Adolescence",
year="1999",
author="Boulton, Michael J. and Trueman, M. and Chau, C. and Whitehand, C. and Amatya, K.",
volume="22",
number="4",
pages="461-466",
abstract="This short-term longitudinal study examined the associations between peer reports of victimization and self-reported friendship among early adolescents. It was carried out to test the view that friendship provides protection against victimization (called the &quot;friendship protection hypothesis&quot;). Data were collected at two points within a school year, separated by 6 months. At Time 1, 170 pupils provided data, and 158 of these did so again at Time 2. Three sets of findings were consistent with the friendship protection hypothesis. First, at Time 1 those early adolescents who had a reciprocated best friend in their home class received significantly fewer peer nominations for victimization than did classmates without a reciprocated best friend. Second, those early adolescents that did not have best friend at either Time 1 or Time 2 showed the highest increase in victimization over the course of the study, whereas those that did have a best friend at both Times 1 and 2 showed the highest falls in victimization. Third, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that a decrease in conflict and betrayal reported to characterize the participants' best friendship was associated with falls in victimization. The implications of these results for anti-bullying initiatives based on &quot;befriending&quot; principles were discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-1971",
doi="10.1006/jado.1999.0240",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jado.1999.0240"
}