Authors: Fox, Claire L.; Boulton, Michael J.

Source: Violence and Victims, Volume 21, Number 3, 2006 , pp. 383-400(18)

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Abstract:

Previous research, primarily in North America, has found that submissive and nonassertive behaviors are associated with peer victimization during childhood. A limitation of this work has been the failure to examine the relationships between such behaviors and different types of peer victimization. To overcome this weakness, we developed an inventory to assess the bidirectional longitudinal associations between three different types of victimization and submissive/nonassertive social behavior. The inventory was completed by 449 children aged 9 to 11 years at two time points over the course of an academic year. The inventory generated self-report scores and peer nominations. A robust finding was that submissive/nonassertive social behavior predicted an increase in social exclusion only. In examining the other direction of the relationship, we found that only social exclusion predicted changes in submissive/nonassertive social behavior over time. The findings advance our understanding of the social skills deficits that put children at risk for peer victimization, and of the implications of victimization for the development of submissive/nonassertive social skills problems.

Keywords: BULLYING; SCHOOLS; PEER VICTIMIZATION; SUBMISSIVE/NONASSERTIVE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/088667006780644640

Publication date: 2006-06-01

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