Peer victimization research has proliferated over the past few decades as researchers
worldwide have identified risk factors, and documented both short-term and long-term …

The experience of peer victimization, or being the target of aggression, is common
throughout childhood and adolescence and often results in negative developmental …

Peer harassment is such a common experience that it appears that most children have been
bullied at some time or another during the course of their school careers. For instance …

Peer victimization may be defined as repeated exposure to physical and verbal aggressive
actions by one or more individuals (Olweus, 1991). Victimization is often equated with a …

The recent focus on designing intervention and prevention programs for victimization has
highlighted the need to better understand how children respond to different types of peer …

Because children who are bullied by their peers are at risk for a variety of psychosocial
challenges, it is critical to better understand the nature and dynamics of peer victimization …

The high prevalence of peer victimization and the emerging recognition of its serious impact
on children and society as a whole have highlighted the public health significance of efforts …

Overview In this chapter we will discuss the importance of considering risk—and
alternatively, protective—factors for peer victimization that occur at multiple levels of …

Much of the existing research on the prevalence and consequences of peer victimization
focuses on “bullying” at school, often omitting from consideration non-bullying types of peer …

Researchers who study peer victimization often focus on features of the child (eg, cognitive,
behavioral, psychological) or facets of the child's environment (eg, peers, family, school) …