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Adolescent Peer Victimization and Physical Health Problems
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: Peer victimization (PV) is a key interpersonal stressor that can be traumatizing for youth. This study evaluated the relationships between overt, relational, reputational, and cyber PV and adolescents' somatic complaints and sleep problems. Symptoms of depression and social anxiety were examined as potential mediators. METHOD: Adolescents (N = 1,162; M age = 15.80 years; 57% female; 80% Hispanic) were assessed at three time points, 6 weeks apart, using standardized measures of PV, depression, social anxiety, sleep problems, and somatic complaints. Structural equation modeling evaluated key study aims. RESULTS: Relational, reputational, and cyber PV, but not overt PV, were directly or indirectly associated with subsequent somatic complaints and/or sleep problems. Depression and social anxiety mediated relationships between relational PV and health outcomes, whereas reputational PV was indirectly associated with somatic complaints via depression only. DISCUSSION: The stress of PV may contribute to adolescents' sleep problems and somatic complaints and has implications for pediatric psychologists. Language: en
- Subjects :
- Child abuse
Male
Sleep Wake Disorders
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Adolescent Health
Poison control
050109 social psychology
Anxiety
Suicide prevention
Peer Group
Injury prevention
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child Maltreatment and Victimization
Prospective Studies
Psychiatry
Crime Victims
Depression
05 social sciences
Stressor
Social anxiety
Human factors and ergonomics
Bullying
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Peer victimization
Female
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....70ddef47383f5d6f798887643bd9755a