0 the act of victimizing someone (= treating them unfairly): --
Childhood victimization is associated with later loneliness and depressive feelings.
The sample contained children who had experienced some degree of victimization by their peers.
Aggression and delinquent behaviors could also be characterized as maladaptive coping strategies to deal with the emotional arousal created by peer victimization experiences.
Children who knew more about typical situations eliciting these emotions had a higher risk for physical victimization.
Thus, we anticipated that physical victimization would be more strongly related to externalizing behaviors for boys than for girls.
For younger children, lifetime victimization prior to the present year made an independent contribution to current trauma symptoms.
It is likely that violence victimization, more so than witnessing, may be associated with both isolation and self-estrangement.
Potential developmental pathways between early victimization and later behavior problems have not been extensively explored by previous investigators.
A second limitation of our prior analysis, shared by virtually all victimization impact research, was its failure to account for previctimization symptomatology.
In terms of the social information processing variables, attributions of sorrow to provoking peers were a positive predictor of physical victimization.
