Unpacking the Misfit Effect: Exploring the Influence of Gender and Social Norms on the Association between Aggression and Peer Victimization

Autor/inn/en	Bass, Ellyn Charlotte; Saldarriaga, Lina Maria; Velasquez, Ana Maria; Santo, Jonathan B.; Bukowski, William M.
Titel	Unpacking the Misfit Effect: Exploring the Influence of Gender and Social Norms on the Association between Aggression and Peer Victimization
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46 (2022) 5, S.372-381 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Santo, Jonathan B.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025421992867
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Victims; Peer Relationship; Violence; Bullying; Social Behavior; Well Being; Behavior Standards; Student Attitudes; Instructional Program Divisions; Friendship; Systems Approach; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Peer Acceptance; Socioeconomic Status; Grade 4; Grade 5; Grade 6; Colombia (Bogota) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Victim; Opfer; Peer-Beziehungen; Gewalt; Mobbing; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Schülerverhalten; Freundschaft; Systemischer Ansatz; Ausland; Korrelation; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06
Abstract	Social norms are vital for the functioning of adolescent peer groups; they can protect the well-being of groups and individual members, often by deterring harmful behaviors, such as aggression, through enforcement mechanisms like peer victimization; in adolescent peer groups, those who violate aggression norms are often subject to victimization. However, adolescents are nested within several levels of peer group contexts, ranging from small proximal groups, to larger distal groups, and social norms operate within each. This study assessed whether there are differences in the enforcement of aggression norms at different levels. Self-report and peer-nomination data were collected four times over the course of a school year from 1,454 early adolescents (M[subscript age] = 10.27; 53.9% boys) from Bogota, Colombia. Multilevel modeling provided support for social regulation of both physical aggression and relational aggression via peer victimization, as a function of gender, grade-level, proximal (friend) or distal (class) injunctive norms of aggression (perceptions of group-level attitudes), and descriptive norms of aggression. Overall, violation of proximal norms appears to be more powerfully enforced by adolescent peer groups. The findings are framed within an ecological systems theory of adolescent peer relationships. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01