Social media is a term for numerous technologies that allow instantaneous communication,
status updates, and social networking among individuals. Social media platforms today …

In the past two decades, there has been significant interest among developmental
psychopathologists in the study of relational forms of aggression, including gossip, social …

The present study examines psychological (eg, Machiavellianism) and social (ie, perceived
popularity) motives for bullying, exploring the effects that classroom prestige norms for …

Relational aggression is defined as harming peers' relationships through exclusion, rumors,
and manipulation. Seminal work on adolescent relational aggression has documented its …

The primary aim of this investigation was to evaluate a model in which children's social
behaviors, including prosocial behavior, setting limits, and social withdrawal, were …

Recent research has revealed significant heterogeneity in the peer difficulties associated
with social withdrawal subtypes during early adolescence, but little is known about possible …

Social norms are vital for the functioning of adolescent peer groups; they can protect the well-
being of groups and individual members, often by deterring harmful behaviors, such as …

The current study examined the moderating effect of classroom aggression on the
development of individual aggression and on the path from individual aggression to social …

Using a genetically informed design based on 197 Monozygotic and Dizygotic twin pairs
assessed in grade 4, this study examined 1) whether, in line with a gene-environment …

Microcontextual factors (ie, contextual characteristics of the specific victimization incident)
may help to explain the association between adolescents' daily peer victimization …