PROGNOSIS
Harsh parenting, insufficient income and infant aggression predict preschool peer victimisation
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What are the trajectories of peer victimisation in preschool and what are the predictors of these trajectories?
1970 children (49% female) born in Quebec between October 1997 and July 1998, who were taking part in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, selected by stratified sampling from the Quebec Birth Registry. Participants were assessed at average ages of 4.5 and 16.6 months, and 2.4, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 6.2 and 7.2 years. Children with data from at least one maternally rated peer victimisation assessment between the ages of 3.4 and 6.2 years were included.
Quebec, Canada; 1997–2005.
Family level factors were assessed at age 5 months, including family adversity (single parent family, low parental education and age at birth of first child, and insufficient income) and harsh reactive parenting (assessed using three self-rated items from the Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale). Child level factors assessed at age 17
School of Social and Family Dynamics, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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