Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 157-167.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.02.04

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Development Trajectories of Student Engagement among Middle School Students: Associations with Peer Victimization

ZHENG Qiao, GENG Lina, LUO Fang, LI Lingyan   

  1. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2020-03-19

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Abstract: A three-year longitudinal study (from 2014 to 2016) was conducted to understand the development characteristics of middle school students' engagement and the associations between students' engagement and their perceived peer victimization in China. 294 participates completed all questionnaires, 142 (48.3%) were girls and 152 (51.7%) were boys. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) results showed that:(1) Middle school students' behavioral engagement significantly declined from the 7th to the 9th grades (mostly in the engagement of school activities); emotional engagement and cognitive engagement significantly increased over time; (2) In the first year of middle school, verbal victimization negatively predicted student's behavioral and emotional engagement; relational victimization negatively predicted to student's behavioral, emotional and cognitive engagement. In addition, physical victimization negatively predicted the developmental change of behavioral engagement across three years, which means that a student's behavioral engagement would decrease faster when he/she had higher level of physical victimization.

Key words: student engagement, peer victimization, middle school student, longitudinal study

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  • B844
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