Citation

Ma TL, Bellmore AD. J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. 2012; 40(3): 413-424.

Affiliation

Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Rm 863L, Educational Sciences Building, 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA, tma3@wisc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10802-011-9576-5

PMID

21969028

Abstract

With a sample of 831 U.S. adolescents (49% girls) followed from 9th to 11th grade, the directionality of the association between school-based peer victimization and adolescents' perception of their parents' psychological control were examined. Possible mediating influences of internalizing symptoms were also explored. The results highlight the relevance of adolescent-to-parent influences during adolescence by demonstrating that physical peer victimization was predictive of increases in mother's psychological control but parental psychological control did not predict subsequent peer victimization. These direct effects were present above and beyond the contribution of adolescent internalizing symptoms to higher parental psychological control. Practical implications of the primacy of adolescent-to-parent influences in predicting the social adjustment of victims of peer harassment are discussed.

Language: en