We present a developmental model that describes normal peer relations and highlights
processes that underlie the emergence of problems with peers in childhood. We propose …

Research on bullying has increased dramatically worldwide, from only 62 citations in
PsycINFO from 1900–1990, to 289 in the 1990s, to 562 from 2000–2004. Much has been …

In this study we examined authoritative discipline theory, which posits that 2 complementary
aspects of school climate—structure and support—are important for adolescents' safety in …

The key aim of the present research was to study the “functionality” of two global variables in
the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire and to examine the appropriateness of different cutoff …

This study investigated the relations between student perceptions of support and student
willingness to seek help for bullying and threats of violence in a sample of 7318 ninth-grade …

This study examined a large spectrum of violence, crime, and victimization experiences in a
nationally representative sample of children and youth ages 2 to 17 years. More than one …

Bullying and victimization were studied from a longitudinal, multi‐method, multi‐agent
perspective as youngsters made the transition from primary through middle school …

A total of 432 students from grades 7-9 in Canadian schools reported their experiences of
cyberharassment, which is a form of harassment that occurs through the use of electronic …

A longitudinal investigation was conducted to explicate how the confluence of early
behavioral dispositions, relational histories, and cognitive representations of the self and …

This book examines the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development by
tracking research findings from the early 1900s to the present. Dividing the research into …