The RPEQ (Prinstein et al. 2001) was also used to assess participants’ peer victimization experiences. The questionnaire includes 18 items that ask participants to rate how often an aggressive behavior was directed towards them in the past year on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from never (1) to a few times a week (5). The original and revised measure has demonstrated good test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and convergent validity (Prinstein et al. 2001; Vernberg, et al. 2000). The RPEQ assesses each of the following forms of victimization: overt (e.g., “A kid threatened to hurt or beat me up”); relational (“To get back at me, another kid told me that he or she would not be my friend”); and reputational (“A kid gossiped about me so that others would not like me.”). Scores are obtained by summing the items within each subscale. Each of the RPEQ victimization subscales demonstrated adequate internal consistency in this sample: overt (α=0.78); relational (α=0.79); reputational (α=0.79).
