The Link Between Juvenile Offending and Victimization:Sources of Change over Time in Bullying Victimization Risk among South Korean Adolescents

• In Event: Youth Bullying and Victimization

Abstract

This study involves a longitudinal analysis of whether changes in bullying victimization over time corresponded with changes in lifestyles and/or self-control. The data from the Korean Youth Panel Survey were collected from a national sample of 2,844 fourth grade students in South Korea, which was followed five years from 2004 (fourth grade) to 2008 (eighth grade in junior high school). Latent growth curve modeling was estimated to examine how individual differences in bullying victimization changed over time and whether inter-individual differences in average victimization for the first wave (“intercepts”) and inter-individual changes in risk across all five waves (“slopes”) could be explained by time-invariant individual-trait variables (male and low self-control) as well as time-varying lifestyle variables [parental attachment (PA), delinquent peer associations (DPA), and juvenile offending (JO)]. The findings reveal the significant cross sectional and longitudinal effects on bullying victimization, which lend support to propositions, derived from both state dependence and risky heterogeneity perspectives. The findings and implications are discussed.

Authors

• Sujung Cho, Delta State University

• Seok-Beom Kim, University of Massachusetts at Lowell