Internalizing symptoms as predictors on group membership of peer status profiles in adolescents with and without parental physical abuse experiences
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25.08.2022
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Internationally, an average of one in five adolescents experiences physical abuse by their parents. It is well established that experiences of physical abuse by parents can lead to devastating consequences in adolescents, with peer relationships can become an essential factor. In the context of resilience theory, high status within the peer group can be seen as a protective factor and vice versa a low peer status as a risk factor for adolescents’ development. However, what type of status is involved and is peer status different among adolescents who have experienced abuse compared to adolescents who have not? It is well known that parental physical abuse is related to dysregulated behavior, such as internalizing behaviors, in the peer context and is therefore related to the position in the peer group. Given the the complex relationship between experiences of parental physical abuse, adolescents’ internalizing symptoms, and their status within the peer group, the present study addresses how many peer status profiles can be found in adolescents with and without parental physical abuse and whether there are differences in the underlying profiles of peer status. How are these underlying profiles of peer status predicted by different forms of internalizing symptoms?
Most studies use the CDC (Coie, Dodge, and Coppotelli; 1982) approach to classify youth with cut-off values into status groups. The present study conceptualized peer status as heterogeneous patterns based on acceptance and popularity measures without including any other characteristics or traits.
Questionnaire data from a cross-sectional study in 2020 with a sample of N=1’959 Swiss seventh grade high school students ages 12 – 14 (M = 11.76; SD = .65), 1,000 (51.2%) assigned females and 952 (48.8%) assigned males, was used to identify and compare underlying patterns of peer status using person-centered Latent Profile Analysis (LPA). Using LPA, we identified three distinct profiles for adolescents with parental physical abuse experiences (n=344), namely liked, liked-popular and rejected-unpopular. Within adolescents without parental physical abuse experiences (n=1,565) we revealed four profiles, namely liked, liked-popular, rejected-unpopular and average. A multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate depression, anxiety, and dissociation as predictors of the peer status patterns.
Higher levels of dissociation significantly indicated that adolescents with parental physical abuse experiences were more likely to belong to the rejected-unpopular group than to the liked group. Anxious students without physical abuse experiences, were more likely to belong to the rejected-unpopular and the liked groups than to the liked-popular and average groups. The present study provided valuable insights into the role of experienced parental physical abuse on adolescents’ position within the group. Peer status should be involved in school and classroom interventions and should be considered as a protective as well as a risk factor in relation to parental abuse experiences and violence-resilience.
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adolescent peer status, parental physical abuse, internalizing symptoms
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18th Biennial Conference. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA)
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24.08.2022
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27.08.2022
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Favre, C. A. (2022, August 25). Internalizing symptoms as predictors on group membership of peer status profiles in adolescents with and without parental physical abuse experiences. 18th Biennial Conference. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA). https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/51003