Peer victimization and relationships to approach and avoidance coping to health and health behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Peer victimization during high school is a common experience associated with engagement in risky health behaviors and elevated depressive symptoms. Mechanisms linking peer victimization to health outcomes remain inadequately understood. In the current study, latent class analysis was used to identify latent subclasses of college students who display similar patterns of responses to frequent peer victimization experiences during high school. We also examined moderating and mediating effects of coping (approach/avoidance) on relationships between victimization class and health outcomes (i.e., binge drinking, current smoking, depressive symptoms). College students completed questionnaire measures of peer victimization, approach and avoidance coping, binge drinking, smoking, and depressive sym

SUBMITTER: Darabos K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8776890 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature