Children entering first grade with signs of depression and anxiety or excessive aggression are at risk of being chronically victimized by their classmates by third grade. That’s the finding of a new longitudinal study that appears in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Child Development. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Victoria, looked at more than 400 Canadian children beginning in the autumn of first grade.
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