Although victimization is a serious problem in children and adolescents, research has commonly focused on risk factors and consequences of this experience and largely ignored factors that protect youth mental health and well-being from the effects of victimization. The purpose of the present study sought to investigate the longitudinal mediating effect of school belongingness on the association of school victimization with emotional problems and psychological well-being among Turkish adolescents. Using the short-term longitudinal approach, data was collected from 282 students in a public secondary school in an urban city of Turkey at two different time points. Students responded to questions concerning school belongingness, emotional problems, psychological well-being, and school victimization. Mediation analyses were conducted across the two waves of data. Findings revealed that both victimization and a low sense of belonging were independently shown to be significantly negatively correlated with emotional problems and positively correlated with psychological well-being. Results also demonstrated that victimized students who feel a sense of belonging to their school display fewer emotional problems and greater well-being than those who are victimized but do not feel a sense of belonging to their school.

尽管受害对儿童和青少年来说是一个严重的问题，但研究通常集中在危险因素和这种经历的后果上，而在很大程度上忽略了保护青年心理健康和福祉免受受害影响的因素。本研究的目的旨在调查学校归属对土耳其青少年中学校受害与情感问题和心理健康的关系的纵向中介作用。使用短期纵向方法，在两个不同的时间点从土耳其城市土耳其一所公立中学的282名学生中收集了数据。学生回答有关学校归属，情绪问题，心理健康和学校受害的问题。跨两波数据进行了调解分析。研究结果表明，受害和归属感低下与情绪问题显着负相关，与心理健康呈正相关。结果还表明，与那些受害但不感到归属感的受害学生相比，那些遭受归属感的受害学生表现出更少的情感问题和更大的幸福感。