Among Aggressor/Victim Subgroups in South Korea Quality as Correlates of Peer Aggression and Peer Victimization Interparental Conflict, Parenting Behavior, and Children's Friendship

Abstract The focus of this study was to examine whether interparental conflict, maternal parenting behaviors, and children’s friendship quality varied as a function of peer aggression/victim subgroups among a sample of 227 elementary school children and their mothers in South Korea. Both self-report and peer-report data indicated that the majority of the students were uninvolved in peer aggression situations, and the number of participants in the subgroups (aggressors, victims, and aggressor-victims) varied depending on the source of report. According to the self-report data, victims and aggressor-victims reported a higher level of maternal rejection than uninvolved youth. Aggressors, victims, and aggressor-victims reported higher 1 Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea 2 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA 3 University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA Corresponding Author: Jung-Hee Shin, Department of Child Development, College of Social Science, Ewha Womans University, Daehyun-dong 11-1, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, South Korea. Email: musicshin@ewha.ac.kr