Hannah L. Schacter

TL;DR: Controlling for sixth-grade adjustment, perceptions of weight-based peer discrimination at 7th grade were stronger predictors of body dissatisfaction, social anxiety, and loneliness at 8th-grade than 7th- grade body mass index.

TL;DR: It is suggested that attribution retraining in the beginning of middle school might help prevent escalating risk for continued peer victimization, and reciprocal relations betweenpeer victimization and characterological self-blame are indicated, suggesting cyclical processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potentially adverse effects of school anti-bullying norms on victims' psychological (depression, social anxiety, and self-esteem) and school adjustment.

TL;DR: The results suggest that antibullying programs designed to improve the school ecology can alleviate the plight of the victimized and underscore that harm reduction should be assessed by testing risk × intervention effects when evaluating effectiveness of such programs.

TL;DR: Examination of school-level victimization as a moderator of associations between peer victimization and changes in 2 types of self-blaming attributions, characterological and behavioral, across the first year of middle school suggests that when schools manage to decrease bullying, the few who remain victimized need additional support to prevent more maladaptive forms ofSelf-blame.