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Citation

Sansen LM, Iffland B, Neuner F. Psychiatry Res. 2014; 220(3): 1051-1058.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University, Postbox 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany. Electronic address: frank.neuner@uni-bielefeld.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2014.09.008

PMID

25440718

Abstract

Experiences of peer victimization have been repeatedly associated with psychological symptoms and disorders. However, as peer victimization is correlated with child maltreatment occurring within the family, it remains unclear whether the pathological effect of peer victimization is an artifact that can be attributed to previous aversive events. To separate the effects of peer victimization from child maltreatment, we studied both event types as well as psychological symptoms in a mixed clinical sample of ambulant and psychiatric patients (N=168), a self-selected community sample recruited through the internet (N=995), and a student sample (N=272). Hierarchical regression analyses showed that, after controlling for child maltreatment, peer victimization accounted for an incremental proportion of the variance of different symptom dimensions in each sample. These results indicate that peer victimization is an independent predictor of psychopathology.


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