Parental Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregulation as Risk Factors for Bullying and Victimization in Middle Childhood

Examined whether children who were maltreated by caregivers were more likely to bully others and to be at risk for victimization by peers. An additional focus was to investigate emotion's role in bullying and victimization among children at risk. Participants were 169 maltreated and 98 nonmaltr...

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Published in:Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology 2001-09, Vol.30 (3), p.349-363
Main Authors: Shields, Ann, Cicchetti, Dante
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Bullying
Child
Child abuse & neglect
Child Abuse - psychology
Child Behavior Disorders - diagnosis
Child Behavior Disorders - etiology
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Child psychology
Children & youth
Crime Victims - psychology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Maltreated children
Mood Disorders - etiology
Mood Disorders - psychology
Parent-Child Relations
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Peer Group
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Victimization
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Summary:Examined whether children who were maltreated by caregivers were more likely to bully others and to be at risk for victimization by peers. An additional focus was to investigate emotion's role in bullying and victimization among children at risk. Participants were 169 maltreated and 98 nonmaltreated boys and girls attending a summer day camp for inner-city children. As predicted, maltreated children were more likely than nonmaltreated children to bully other children. Bullying was especially prevalent among abused children who experienced maltreating acts of commission (physical or sexual abuse). Maltreatment also placed children at risk for victimization by peers. Gender did not moderate these findings, in that maltreated boys and girls appeared to be at similar risk for bullying and victimization. As expected, both bullies and victims evidenced problems with emotion regulation. Furthermore, logistic regression analyses suggested that emotion dysregulation made a unique contribution toward differentiating bullies and victims from children who did not evidence bully-victim problems. In addition, maltreatment's effects on children's risk for bullying and victimization were mediated by emotion dysregulation.
ISSN:1537-4416
0047-228X
1537-4424
DOI:10.1207/S15374424JCCP3003_7