The Pathways from Forms of Aggression and Peer Victimization to Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: A Gender-Informed Analysis

IF 1.7 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI:10.1007/s40653-024-00622-9

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Abstract

Despite ample evidence supporting the association between relational and overt aggression and social-psychological adjustment problems, little is known about how this association occurs among adolescents in non-Western cultures. The present study examined whether potentially traumatic peer experience, such as forms of peer victimization (relational and overt), influences the longitudinal association between forms of aggression (relational and overt) and social-psychological adjustment problems (internalizing and externalizing) among Japanese adolescents. Gender differences in the mediation of peer victimization were also examined. Two hundred and eighty-one Japanese students from nine classrooms and two public middle schools participated in this study (Time 1 M age = 12.72, SD = .45, 50% female). Data included three time points one year apart (Grades 7, 8, and 9). Results of structural equation modeling indicated that higher relational aggression in Grade 7 was associated with more internalizing and externalizing problems in Grade 9. Notably, relational aggression was associated with internalizing problems, but not with externalizing problems, through relational victimization for both boys and girls. Overt aggression in Grade 7 was significantly associated with externalizing problems in Grade 9, but overt victimization did not mediate this association. On the other hand, overt aggression did not predict internalizing problems in Grade 9, but the indirect effect of overt victimization was found in this association. The findings inform us of the need to intervene with at-risk youth, regardless of gender, who use relational aggression, experience potentially traumatic relational victimization, and subsequently exhibit high levels of mental health and behavioral problems in Japan.

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从攻击和同伴伤害形式到内化和外化问题的途径：性别分析

摘要尽管有大量证据表明，关系攻击和公开攻击与社会心理适应问题之间存在关联，但人们对这种关联如何在非西方文化背景下的青少年中发生却知之甚少。本研究探讨了潜在的同伴创伤经历，如同伴伤害形式（关系性和公开性），是否会影响日本青少年的攻击形式（关系性和公开性）与社会心理适应问题（内化和外化）之间的纵向联系。此外，还研究了性别差异对同伴伤害的中介作用。来自九个班级和两所公立中学的 281 名日本学生参与了这项研究（时间 1 中学生年龄 = 12.72，标准差 = 0.45，50% 为女生）。数据包括相隔一年的三个时间点（七年级、八年级和九年级）。结构方程模型的结果表明，七年级较高的关系攻击与九年级较多的内化和外化问题有关。值得注意的是，对于男孩和女孩来说，关系攻击与内化问题有关，但与通过关系受害而产生的外化问题无关。七年级时的公开攻击行为与九年级时的外部化问题有明显的关联，但公开的受害行为并没有对这种关联起到中介作用。另一方面，公开的攻击行为并不能预测九年级的内化问题，但公开的受害行为对这种关联有间接影响。这些研究结果告诉我们，有必要对使用关系攻击、经历可能造成创伤的关系伤害并随后在日本表现出高水平心理健康和行为问题的高危青少年进行干预，无论其性别如何。

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Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma Multiple-

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3.00

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期刊介绍： Underpinned by a biopsychosocial approach, the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma presents original research and prevention and treatment strategies for understanding and dealing with symptoms and disorders related to the psychological effects of trauma experienced by children and adolescents during childhood and where the impact of these experiences continues into adulthood. The journal also examines intervention models directed toward the individual, family, and community, new theoretical models and approaches, and public policy proposals and innovations. In addition, the journal promotes rigorous investigation and debate on the human capacity for agency, resilience and longer-term healing in the face of child and adolescent trauma. With a multidisciplinary approach that draws input from the psychological, medical, social work, sociological, public health, legal and education fields, the journal features research, intervention approaches and evidence-based programs, theoretical articles, specific review articles, brief reports and case studies, and commentaries on current and/or controversial topics. The journal also encourages submissions from less heard voices, for example in terms of geography, minority status or service user perspectives. Among the topics examined in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma: The effects of childhood maltreatment Loss, natural disasters, and political conflict Exposure to or victimization from family or community violence Racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation or class discrimination Physical injury, diseases, and painful or debilitating medical treatments The impact of poverty, social deprivation and inequality Barriers and facilitators on pathways to recovery The Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma is an important resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and academics whose work is centered on children exposed to traumatic events and adults exposed to traumatic events as children.