Peer acceptance, deviancy training, and victimization as predictors of adolescent problems : a search for personality moderators / by Hilary Cartwright.

Abstract

"More recently, the importance of peer relationships with respect to the development of behavioural and emotional difficulties in children and adolescents has been acknowledged ... The extent to which individuals' experience acceptance or rejection from their peers, associate with deviant peers, or are victims of bullying have all been associated with internalizing and externalizing difficulties."--abstract.