RT Journal Article
T1 Peer Victimization and Mental Health Risk in Chilean Students
A1 López, Verónica
A1 Murphy, Michael
A1 Lucke, Cara
A1 Torres-Vallejos, Javier
A1 Villalobos-Parada, Boris
A1 Ascorra, Paula
A1 Carrasco-Aguilar, Claudia
A1 Bilbao, Marian
K1 Ciberacoso
K1 Niños - Salud mental
K1 Violencia en la escuela
AB Children who exhibit mental health problems are more likely to be targets of peer victimization. However, little is knownabout how mental health risk interacts with other individual and school-level factors in this relationship. In the current study,we explored the associations between peer victimization and mental health in 10,532 Chilean sixth grade students attending405 of the lower SES schools in the country. Children were screened for mental health and classroom adaptation problemsusing standardized parent and teacher rating scales at the beginning of the school year, and completed questionnaires on selfreported peer victimization, classroom climate, and school climate at the end of the year, as part of an ongoing nationalschool mental health program, which includes monitoring for school violence and school climate. Data were analyzedthrough logistic regression and multilevel analyses, incorporating sex, absenteeism due to physical health, school attendance,and individual SES as covariates. Results showed that the odds of being victimized by peers were five times greater forstudents who were identified at risk for mental health problems based on parent reports, and one time greater for studentsidentified by teachers with attention and concentration difficulties. However, multilevel analyses showed that the relativecontribution of mental health risk to peer victimization significantly diminished when other individual and school-levelvariables were included. Particularly relevant was the contribution of individual SES, classroom climate, and absenteeismdue to physical health; and of school-level SES. These findings suggest the complex nature of the influence of mental healthon peer victimization and the relevance of the social context interacting with student’s mental health problems.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41411
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41411
LA eng
NO López, V., Murphy, M., Lucke, C., Torres, J., Villalobos, B., Ascorra, P., Carrasco-Aguilar, C. & Bilbao, M. (2018) Peer Victimization and Mental Health Risk in Chilean Students, Journal of Child and Family Studies 27(8), 2608-2621 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1105-5
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/14351
NO FONDEF IT1410132, and PIACONICYT Project CIE160009 of the Chilean National Commission of Science and Technology.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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