TY - JOUR
T1 - Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts?
T2 - Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization
AU - Kaufman, Tessa M. L.
AU - Laninga‐wijnen, Lydia
AU - Lodder, Gerine M. A.
N1 - This study is part of the larger longitudinal Social Network Analysis of Risk behavior in Early adolescence (SNARE) project.
SNARE has been financially supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Vernieuwingsimpuls
VENI grant project number 451-10-012 and NWO Youth & Family Program project number 431-09-027
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Existing literature has mostly explained the occurrence of bullying victimization by individual socioemotional maladjustment. Instead, this study tested the person-group dissimilarity model (Wright et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50: 523–536, 1986) by examining whether individuals’ deviation from developmentally important (relational, socio-behavioral, and physical) descriptive classroom norms predicted victimization. Adolescents (N = 1267, k = 56 classrooms; Mage = 13.2; 48.7% boys; 83.4% Dutch) provided self-reported and peer-nomination data throughout one school year (three timepoints). Results from group actor–partner interdependence models indicated that more person-group dissimilarity in relational characteristics (fewer friendships; incidence rate ratios [IRR]T2 = 0.28, IRRT3 = 0.16, fewer social media connections; IRRT3 = 0.13) and, particularly, lower disruptive behaviors (IRRT2 = 0.35, IRRT3 = 0.26) predicted victimization throughout the school year.
AB - Existing literature has mostly explained the occurrence of bullying victimization by individual socioemotional maladjustment. Instead, this study tested the person-group dissimilarity model (Wright et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50: 523–536, 1986) by examining whether individuals’ deviation from developmentally important (relational, socio-behavioral, and physical) descriptive classroom norms predicted victimization. Adolescents (N = 1267, k = 56 classrooms; Mage = 13.2; 48.7% boys; 83.4% Dutch) provided self-reported and peer-nomination data throughout one school year (three timepoints). Results from group actor–partner interdependence models indicated that more person-group dissimilarity in relational characteristics (fewer friendships; incidence rate ratios [IRR]T2 = 0.28, IRRT3 = 0.16, fewer social media connections; IRRT3 = 0.13) and, particularly, lower disruptive behaviors (IRRT2 = 0.35, IRRT3 = 0.26) predicted victimization throughout the school year.
U2 - 10.1111/cdev.13772
DO - 10.1111/cdev.13772
M3 - Article
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 93
SP - 1458
EP - 1474
JO - Child Development
JF - Child Development
IS - 5
ER -