TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race-ethnicity, cohort, and study site
JO  - Child development
A1  - Bettencourt, Amie F.
A1  - Musci, Rashelle J.
A1  - Masyn, Katherine E.
A1  - Farrell, Albert D.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13691
ID  - ref1
ER  -