Peer victimization across the school years: Consequences for social goals in early adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Social goals (i.e., objectives that individuals aim to attain or avoid in their peer relationships through their actions; Emmons, 1996; Parkhurst & Asher, 1985) are important for a variety of adjustment outcomes, but little is known about the factors that foster them. Exposure to peer victimization, either at a young and formative age or as a long-term burden, has a significant impact on how youth negotiate their social world, and may alter social goal orientation during the adolescent transition. The present study examined the hypothesis that exposure to higher early (second grade) levels of victimization and smaller decreases or larger increases in victimization over time (second-seventh grade) would uniquely predict lower levels of social mastery goals and elevated levels of social perf

SUBMITTER: Llewellyn N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12717672 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature