Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization is the only book that addresses bullying across the developmental spectrum, covering child, adolescent, and adult populations. The contributors offer in-depth analyses on traditional aggression and victimization (physical bullying) as well as social rejection (emotional bullying). Peer and family relationships, relational aggression, and cyber-bullying are just a few of the important topics discussed. Key Features: Analyzes both perpetrator's and victim's sides of the peer victimization experience Explores how gender traits influence aggression Investigates how family dynamics influence chronic peer victimization Examines the relationships between social status, power, and aggression This text offers a wealth of insight into the experiences of victims of peer bullying, using cutting-edge theoretical perspectives, including social cognition, social ecology, genetics and genetic-environment interactions, and social cognitive neuroscience.
Author(s): Monica J. Harris PhD
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 396
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
PART I: INTRODUCTION......Page 18
1 Taking Bullying and Rejection (Inter)Personally: Benefits of a Social Psychological Approach to Peer Victimization......Page 20
PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 42
2 A Child and Environment Framework for Studying Risk for Peer Victimization......Page 44
3 Exploring the Experience of Social Rejection in Adults and Adolescents: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective......Page 70
4 Why’s Everybody Always Picking on Me? Social Cognition, Emotion Regulation, and Chronic Peer Victimization in Children......Page 96
PART III: AGGRESSION AND VICTIMIZATION......Page 118
5 The Importance of Personality and Effortful Control Processes in Victimization......Page 120
6 A Person x Situation Approach to Understanding Aggressive Behavior and Underlying Aggressogenic Thought......Page 142
7 Contributions of Three Social Theories to Understanding Bullying Perpetration and Victimization Among School-Aged Youth......Page 168
8 Sex Differences in Aggression From an Adaptive Perspective......Page 188
PART IV: REJECTION AND RELATIONAL AGGRESSION......Page 216
9 The Pain of Exclusion: Using Insights From Neuroscience to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion......Page 218
10 Looking Before Leaping: The Role of Social Expectancies in Attachment Regulation Following Interpersonal Rejection......Page 242
11 Alone and Aggressive: Social Exclusion Impairs Self-Control and Empathy and Increases Hostile Cognition and Aggression......Page 268
12 Is Ostracism Worse Than Bullying?......Page 296
PART V: VICTIMIZATION AND THE LARGER PEER CONTEXT......Page 314
13 Bullying as a Means to Foster Compliance......Page 316
14 Social Networks and Peer Victimization: The Contexts of Children’s Victimization by Peers......Page 336
15 Using Social Network Analysis as a Lens to Examine Socially Isolated Youth......Page 362
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I......Page 387
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R......Page 391
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V......Page 396
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