TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Personal peer victimization and ethnic peer victimization: Findings on their co-occurrence, predictors, and outcomes from a latent profile analysis
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Arens, A. Katrin
A1  - Visser, Linda
SP  - e104250
EP  - e104250
VL  - 99
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: Findings on whether immigrant students suffer from higher levels of peer victimization have been inconsistent, perhaps due to a blend of measures for personal and ethnic peer victimization. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: In this study, we investigated personal and ethnic peer victimization using latent profile analyses. The profiles were related to various predictor and outcome variables. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: The sample consisted of N = 4367 German elementary school students attending grades 3 and 4. <br><br>METHODS: The students responded to eight items addressing personal peer victimization and one item addressing ethnic peer victimization. <br><br>RESULTS: The findings indicated a three-profile solution. In Profile 1, students experienced a combination of personal and ethnic peer victimization; Profile 2 contained students without any victimization experiences; in Profile 3, students experienced personal peer victimization only. Relative to native German-speaking students, non-native German-speaking students had a higher chance to be classified in Profile 1 compared to Profiles 2 and 3. Both profiles of peer victimization (i.e., Profiles 1 and 3) were associated with negative outcomes including higher levels of different types of anxiety and depression, and lower levels of self-esteem and peer self-concept. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Student subgroups of different patterns of peer victimization were found, whereby ethnic peer victimization was blended with personal peer victimization in one subgroup, and personal peer victimization was experienced in a pure form in another subgroup. The two victimization subgroups did not differ with regard to outcomes, but were differentially predicted by students' native language.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104250
ID  - ref1
ER  -