Depression and Interpersonal Stress Generation in Children: Prospective Impact on Relational versus Overt Victimization.

The goal of this study was to examine depressive stress generation effects on children's reports of relational and overt peer victimization. Participants in this multi-wave prospective study were 100 children assessed every two months for six months who completed self-report assessments of peer victimization and depressive symptoms at each assessment point. Using linear mixed modeling, we found that children's elevations in depressive symptoms predicted prospective increases in children's levels of peer victimization, with the effects being specific to relational victimization.