2013/04/18 by Wan‐Ling Tseng, Adrienne M. Banny, Yoshito Kawabata +2 · 87 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aggression #Association (psychology) #Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Human factors and ergonomics #Injury prevention #Intimate Partner and Family Violence #Longitudinal study #Medicine #Peer group #Poison control #Popularity #Psychology #Social psychology #Structural equation modeling
paper · doi:10.1002/ab.21480
published in Aggressive Behavior 39(4), 301-315 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2013/04/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
This short-term longitudinal study examined the associations among relational aggression, physical aggression, and peer status (i.e., acceptance, rejection, and perceived popularity) across three time points, six months apart, in a Taiwanese sample. Participants were 198 fifth grade students (94 girls and 104 boys; Mean age = 10.35 years) from Taipei, Taiwan. Study variables were assessed using peer nomination procedure. Results from the cross-lagged structural equation models demonstrated that there were longitudinal associations between relational aggression and each of the peer status constructs while only one longitudinal association was found for physical aggression such that physical aggression positively predicted subsequent peer rejection. The longitudinal associations did not vary with gender. Results also showed high stabilities of relational aggression, physical aggression, and the three peer status constructs over 1 year as well as high concurrent association between relational and physical aggression. In addition, relational aggression and physical aggression were concurrently related to less acceptance, more rejection, and less perceived popularity, especially at the outset of the study. Findings of this study demonstrated both similarities and differences in relation to previous literature in primarily Western cultures. This study also highlights the bidirectional and complex nature of the association between aggression and peer status, which appears to depend on the form of aggression and on the particular indicator of peer status under study.