@article{ref1,
title="Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race-ethnicity, cohort, and study site",
journal="Child development",
year="2021",
author="Bettencourt, Amie F. and Musci, Rashelle J. and Masyn, Katherine E. and Farrell, Albert D.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Peer victimization is common and linked to maladjustment. Prior research has typically identified four peer victimization subgroups: aggressors, victims, aggressive-victims, and uninvolved. However, findings related to sex and racial-ethnic differences in subgroup membership have been mixed. Using data collected in September of 2002 and 2003, this study conducted confirmatory latent class analysis of a racially-ethnically diverse sample of 5415 sixth graders (49% boys; 50.6% Black; 20.9% Hispanic) representing two cohorts from 37 schools in four U.S. communities to replicate the four subgroups and evaluate measurement invariance of latent class indicators across cohort, sex, race-ethnicity, and study site. <br><br>RESULTS replicated the four-class solution and illustrated that sociodemographic differences in subgroup membership were less evident after accounting for differential item functioning.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/cdev.13691",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13691"
}