@article{ref1,
title="Predictive effects of social anxiety on increases in future peer victimization for a community sample of middle-school youth",
journal="International journal of behavioral development",
year="2017",
author="Mulder, Saskia F. and Hutteman, Roos and van Aken, Marcel A. G.",
volume="41",
number="5",
pages="588-596",
abstract="This longitudinal study focused on clarifying the direction of effects between social anxiety and victimization in a community-based sample. In addition, we studied the moderating effect of gender on this association. A total of 1,649 children (45% boys, approximately 12 years old) of 65 secondary-school classes participated in the study. Self-reports and peer nomination data of victimization as well as self-reports of social anxiety were gathered in the fall of Grade 1 (T1, wave one) and in the spring of Grade 1 (T2, wave 2). Latent multiple-group cross-lagged analyses were conducted. <br><br>RESULTS showed that higher social anxiety scores predicted incremental change in future peer- and self-reported victimization in boys, but not in girls, over and above the stability of victimization. Reverse cross-lagged effects of victimization predicting incremental change in future social anxiety, were not found. Although gender differences were significant, they were small.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-0254",
doi="10.1177/0165025416662344",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025416662344"
}