Peer victimization

Peer victimization is harassment or bullying that occurs among members of the same peer group. It is often used to describe the experience among children or young people of being a target of the aggressive and abusive behavior of other children, who are not siblings and not necessarily age-mates.^[1]

^ Hawker, David S.J.; Boulton, Michael J. (May 2000). "Twenty years' research on peer victimization and psychosocial maladjustment: a meta-analytic review of cross-sectional studies". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 41 (4): 441–455. doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00629. PMID 10836674.

[twenty-1] Hawker, David S.J.; Boulton, Michael J. (May 2000). "Twenty years' research on peer victimization and psychosocial maladjustment: a meta-analytic review of cross-sectional studies". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 41 (4): 441–455. doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00629. PMID 10836674.

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