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WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) — There are four developmental patterns of peer victimization across childhood, and family vulnerabilities are associated with development of distinct trajectories, according to a study published online April 1 in Pediatrics<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sinziana I. Oncioiu, M.P.H., from the University of Bordeaux in France, and colleagues described developmental trajectories of peer victimization from 6 to 17 years of age using data from 1,760 children enrolled in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development population-based birth cohort. Peer victimization was self-reported at ages 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 17 years.<\/p>\n
The researchers identified four trajectories of peer victimization from age 6 to 17 years: low, moderate-emerging, childhood-limited, and high-chronic (32.9, 29.8, 26.2, and 11.1 percent, respectively). The likelihood of exhibiting externalizing behaviors in early childhood was increased in the moderate-emerging, childhood-limited, and high-chronic trajectories versus the low peer victimization trajectory; children in the high-chronic and moderate-emerging trajectories were more likely to be boys. Paternal history of antisocial behavior was associated with moderate-emerging and high-chronic versus low peer victimization (odds ratios, 1.54 and 1.93, respectively). Living in a nonintact family in early childhood was associated with childhood-limited and high-chronic versus low peer victimization (odds ratios, 1.48 and 1.59, respectively).<\/p>\n
“To prevent persistent peer victimization, children who are victimized should be offered targeted interventions that address these individual and family vulnerabilities early in their school careers,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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