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School-Age Bullying Victimization and Perpetration: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies and Research

Glenn D. Walters

Trauma Violence & Abuse · 2020

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= .21, 95% CI [.17, .24]) were obtained for the two cross-lagged longitudinal correlations. The results did not change when analyses were conducted separately for traditional bullying and cyberbullying outcomes. These findings indicate that bullying victimization and perpetration correlate strongly and that their cross-lagged longitudinal relationship runs in both directions, such that perpetration is just as likely to lead to future victimization as victimization is to lead to future perpetration. Different theoretical models are proposed in an effort to explain these results: cycle of violence, general strain, and social cognitive theories for victimization leading to perpetration and risky lifestyles, routine activities, and peer selection theories for perpetration leading to victimizat

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1177/1524838020906513
Catalogue ID
SNmojoljd7-24d80i
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