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- Title
Relational Aggression Victimization as a Predictor of Middle-School Girls' Self-Disclosure to Peers.
- Authors
Jones, Jayme L.; Kahn, Jeffrey H.; Sullivan, Samantha DeHaan
- Abstract
Being a victim of relational aggression is associated with many negative outcomes among adolescent girls, and diminished self-disclosure to peers may be one of them. Given this possibility, it is important to examine potential mediators of this relation. Middle-school girls (N = 180) completed paper-and-pencil measures of relational aggression victimization, self-disclosure to their peer group, and four potential mediators-outcome expectations about self-disclosure, loneliness, social anxiety, and self-esteem. Negative outcome expectations about disclosure and loneliness were significant mediators of the relation between being a victim of relational aggression and self-disclosing to the peer group. Despite the limitations of these cross-sectional data, the present findings suggest that relational aggression is associated with diminished disclosure to others because victimized girls experience heightened loneliness and because they believe that self-disclosure will lead to negative outcomes.
- Subjects
AGGRESSION (Psychology); CRIME victims; PSYCHOLOGY of teenage girls; SELF-disclosure; PEER relations; SELF-esteem; SOCIAL anxiety; LONELINESS
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-18-00085