Depressive symptoms, friend distress, and self-blame: Risk factors for adolescent peer victimization.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Schacter, Hannah L. Juvonen, Jaana
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Past research indicates that depressed adolescents experience increased risk for peer victimization. Less is known about the conditions under which depressive symptoms predict social vulnerability and the mechanism underlying such links. The current study considers a) characterological self-blaming attributions as a social cognitive mechanism accounting for links between depressive symptoms and victimization across the first two years of middle school and b) the potential moderating role of friends' level of depressive symptoms. Relying on an ethnically diverse sample of 5,374 adolescents, multilevel moderated mediation analyses indicated that maladaptive attributions accounted for links between 6th grade depressive symptoms and increases in 7th grade victimization. Moreover, this mediational pathway was strongest for students whose friends also experienced heightened depressive symptoms at the beginning of middle school. These results highlight the roles of both intra- and inter-personal risk factors in predicting social cognitive biases and future victimization risk during the middle school years.
Starting Page	35
Ending Page	43
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1016/j.appdev.2017.02.005
PubMed reference number	29056807
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	51
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2017.02.005
Journal	Journal of applied developmental psychology
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article