3-139 - Peer Ethnic Aggression and Victimization in Preadolescence and Adolescence

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

In our culturally and ethnically diverse societies, peer ethnic aggression and victimization have been highlighted as an emerging problem. The aim of this symposium is to investigate factors and mechanisms relevant to aggression and victimizatipn at the individual and interpersonal level, taking into account ethnicity-related context variables. In order to present a multi-faceted and global view of the context, the studies come from countries that are undergoing a recent process of immigration and integration (Europe) and countries that already have a multiracial and multiethnic population (US).
The first study from Germany focuses on the dimensions of social-emotional development in ethnic aggression and victimization, and explores whether the associations differ for students with and without an immigrant background. The study from Italy investigates how acculturation orientation toward home and host countries plays a role in ethnic bullying, taking into account both the condition of belonging to a minority group and immigrant status.
The study from the United States examines school ethnic diversity as a central context variable: following a person-centered approach, the patterns of attributions for victimization are examined testing whether more adaptive patterns are associated with more school diversity.
The second contribution from Germany moves toward intervention in order to analyze how intergroup contact is an effective strategy to reduce prejudice and increase tolerance when combined with training on social competence. Overall the four contributions can offer a deep and integrated overview of the role of ethnicity in peer relations in countries that have different experiences with ethnic diversity.

Sub Unit

• Social Relationships

Chairs

• Ersilia Menesini, University of Florence

• Sandra Graham, University of California, Los Angeles

Individual Presentations

• Associations between ethnic aggression and the social-emotional development of adolescents - Presenting Author: Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, Institute of Education, Technische Universität Berlin; Non-Presenting Author: Jan Pfetsch, Institute of Education, Technische Universität Berlin; Non-Presenting Author: Angela Ittel, Institute of Education, Technische Universität Berlin; Non-Presenting Author: Dagmar Strohmeier, School of Medical Engineering and Applied Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria; Non-Presenting Author: Tina Malti, University of Toronto; Non-Presenting Author: Gil Noam, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

• Ethnic Bullying Victimization: the role of acculturation orientation for minority groups with different immigrant status - Presenting Author: Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, University of Florence; Non-Presenting Author: Maria Rosaria Nappa, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Florence; Non-Presenting Author: Valentina Zambuto, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Florence; Non-Presenting Author: Ersilia Menesini, University of Florence

• Attributions for Victimization in Ethnically Diverse Middle Schools - Presenting Author: Sandra Graham, University of California, Los Angeles

• Prevention of prejudices through intergroup contact with refugee and native children - Presenting Author: Jan Pfetsch, Institute of Education, Technische Universität Berlin; Non-Presenting Author: Laura M. Neumann, Technische Universität Berlin