Peer victimization in school: Exploring the ethnic context
Peer victimization in school: Exploring the ethnic context
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00460.x
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发表时间:
2006-12-01
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Graham, Sandra
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作者:
Graham, Sandra
This article provides an overview of recent research on peer victimization in school that highlights the role of the ethnic context-specifically, classrooms' and schools' ethnic composition. Two important findings emerge from this research. First, greater ethnic diversity in classrooms and schools reduces students' feelings of victimization and vulnerability, because there is more balance of power among different ethnic groups. Second, in nondiverse classrooms where one ethnic group enjoys a numerical majority, victimized students who are members of the ethnic group that is in the majority may be particularly vulnerable to self-blaming attributions. The usefulness of attribution theory as a conceptual framework and ethnicity as a context variable in studies of peer victimization are discussed.