The current study examines the developmental trajectories of school violence victimization during the period from 8th graders to 12th graders. The current study also tries to find out any meaningful victimization pattern during the five year period. I...
The current study examines the developmental trajectories of school violence victimization during the period from 8th graders to 12th graders. The current study also tries to find out any meaningful victimization pattern during the five year period. In addition to the pattern of victimization experience-the latent trajectory classes, the current study also examines the different longitudinal changes of the relational, psychological, and emotional factors as well as delinquency and delinquent friends. The results are as follows. First, based on the KYPS(Korean Youth Panel Study) which includes 8th graders to 12th graders, there are only two significant patterns of school violence victimization . no victimization group and chronic victimization group. During the middle and high school period, there are only two distinct trajectories of victimization. Second, the results of GMM analysis indicate that the changes of other socio/relational/emotional/delinquent factors are emerged by the two distinct trajectory classes. The chronic victimization group has the highest initial average in the negative emotions such as anger and depression. And also, the chronic group tends to show little longitudinal changes over the time period compared to the no victimization group.