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Wenjing Ge1,2, Shi Chen3, Xuqing Bai1,2
1Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China.
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Although peer victimization and school refusal tendencies are well documented in early adolescence, the specific within-person directional associations between the two remain underexplored. Employing a three-wave Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model (RI-CLPM), this study disentangled stable between-person differences from within-person fluctuations in a sample of 510 Chinese early adolescents (53.92% boys; Mage at T1 = 10.30 years, SD = .61), and explored potential gender differences in these processes. Results showed that at the within-person level, peer victimization significantly predicted prospective school refusal tendencies-a directional transmission most prominent during the initial wave interval (T1-T2)-whereas school refusal tendencies did not predict prospective peer victimization. Multi-group analysis indicated no significant gender differences in these cross-lagged associations. These findings highlight the developmentally sensitive role of peer victimization in precipitating school avoidance and emphasize the need for trait-controlled, timely peer interventions.
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