Talk:Peer victimization

Okay for reference, how we are going to do the /ref tags are as follows:

For something like Williams and Guerra, 2007 the tag will be

For something like Schwartz et al. (1998) the tag will be

For something like (Seely, Tombari, Bennett & Dunkle, 2009) the tag will be

For single author like Achenbach, 1966 the tag will be So, when you add references to the end of sentences for a second, third, or whatever time, simply code it as  Remember the quote marks and Wiki will automatically group references together.

The above is a failed attempt to recreate what I wrote on the email, doh

Adult peer victimization
Nice article but why should it only be confined to children ? --Penbat (talk) 17:04, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Good point Penbat. We created a page specific to peer victimization in children because we believe children and adults experience peer victimization quite differently. Especially during adolescence when individuals are uniquely engaged in the formation of self-schemas, social belonging is much more important to them. Therefore it follows that experiencing peer victimization seems much more devastating and the effects are especially harmful (see our article). Also, when studying peer victimization of children, one automatically thinks of the school environment as the primary setting, and this is where much of the research centered on this age group is focusing. Of course, adults are not mandated to attend school so this area of research is not as pertinent or generalizable. There are even differences in the way the child and adult brain processes peer victimization. I attended a lecture by the prominent neuroscientist Carrie Masten this year and I learned that during adolescence the area in a child’s brain that processes social rejection had been shown to be located in the same area that processes physical pain, which is not so in adults. We believe there is enough information about peer victimization in children to create a separate page for this age group, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be one for adults. Lauraj2890 (talk) 22:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Fine but "Peer victimization" misrepresents the content, maybe rename as "Peer victimization in school children" or similar ? Penbat (talk) 08:29, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Background/overview
The Background/overview section was a little bit out of date so I added some information on cyberbullying and how it may be different than traditional peer victimization. Vstrong21 (talk) 20:51, 7 June 2012 (UTC)vstrong21