TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stadler, Christina
A1  - Feifel, Julia
A1  - Rohrmann, Sonja
A1  - Vermeiren, Robert
A1  - Poustka, Fritz
T1  - Peer-victimization and mental health problems in adolescents : are parental and school support protective?
T2  - Child psychiatry & human development
N2  - The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and effects of peer-victimization on mental health problems among adolescents. Parental and school support were assumed as protective factors that might interact with one another in acting as buffers for adolescents against the risk of peer-victimization. Besides these protective factors, age and gender were additionally considered as moderating factors. The Social and Health Assessment survey was conducted among 986 students aged 11-18 years in order to assess peer-victimization, risk and protective factors and mental health problems. For mental health problems, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used. Effects of peer-victimization on mental health problems were additionally compared with normative SDQ data in order to obtain information about clinically relevant psychopathology in our study sample. Results of this study show that peer-victimization carries a serious risk for mental health problems in adolescents. School support is effective in both male and female adolescents by acting as a buffer against the effect of victimization, and school support gains increasing importance in more senior students. Parental support seems to be protective against maladjustment, especially in peer-victimized girls entering secondary school. Since the effect of peer-victimization can be reduced by parental and school support, educational interventions are of great importance in cases of peer-victimization.
KW  - Victimization
KW  - Protective factors
KW  - Parent support
KW  - School support
KW  - Mental health problems
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26607
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-266074
SN  - 1573-3327
SN  - 0009-398X
N1  - Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com . Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
VL  - 41
IS  - 4
SP  - 371
EP  - 386
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -