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Temporal ordering effects of adolescent depression, relational aggression, and victimization over six waves: Fully latent reciprocal effects models
Marsh, Herbert Warren Craven, Rhonda G. Parker, Phil D. Parada, Roberto H. Guo, Jiesi Dicke, Theresa Abduljabbar, Adel S.
Marsh, Herbert Warren
Craven, Rhonda G.
Parker, Phil D.
Parada, Roberto H.
Guo, Jiesi
Dicke, Theresa
Abduljabbar, Adel S.
Abstract
The temporal ordering of depression, aggression, and victimization has important implications for theory, policy, and practice. For a representative sample of high school students (Grades 7–10; N = 3,793) who completed the same psychometrically strong, multiitem scales 6 times over a 2-year period, there were reciprocal effects between relational-aggression and relational-victimization factors: aggression led to subsequent victimization and victimization led to subsequent aggression. After controlling for prior depression, aggression, and victimization, depression had a positive effect on subsequent victimization, but victimization had no effect on subsequent depression. Aggression neither affected nor was affected by depression. The results suggest that depression is a selection factor that leads to victimization, but that victimization has little or no effect on subsequent depression beyond what can be explained by the preexisting depression. In support of developmental equilibrium, the results were consistent across the 6 waves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords
victimization, depression, Relational aggression, developmental equilibrium
Date
2016
Type
Journal article
Journal
Developmental Psychology
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Volume
52
Issue
12
Page Range
1994-2009
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ACU Department
Institute for Positive Psychology and Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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