RT Article
T1 Explaining the patterns of bullying victimization trajectories: assessing the generality of low self-control and crime opportunity models to bullying victims
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 2022
IS 1
SP 1
OP 32
A1 Cho, Sujung
A2 Park, Insun
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1823710603
AB This study hypothesizes that self-control and opportunity variables affect heterogeneity in developmental trajectories of bullying victimization. Using data from a follow-up study of 2,351 Korean adolescents, the study incorporates a latent class growth analysis approach to identify subgroups, each with a unique pattern of the trajectories. The model yields three subgroups of bullying victims: the early-onset and decreaser, the increaser and late-peak, and the normative groups. Results suggest that, compared to the normative group, the early-onset and decreasing group members manifest lower levels of self-control and engage in a greater range of delinquent behaviors. Also, the impact of low self-control on group membership was attenuated after controlling for those opportunity variables, indicating a partially mediating relationship. Social guardianship variables distinguished normative groups from other victim groups. Further, members of the increaser and late-peak group were more likely than the early-onset and decreaser group members to engage in cyber deviance over the long-term.
K1 bullying victimization
K1 developmental trajectories
K1 social guardianship
K1 Low self-control
K1 Latent class growth analysis
DO 10.1177/0306624X221102793