Esther Mertens

108 | Chapter 5 deviant modeling had no effect on students’ perceptions of the classroom peer context. Interventions that aim to improve how students’ perceive the peer context in the class, and victimization in particular, should therefore focus on students’ prosocial modeling. Altogether, this study underscores the importance for future research to focus equally on deviant and prosocial peer influences within different sorts of relationships as deviant and prosocial influences are not mere ends of the same continuum. Additionally, our study highlights the importance for interventions aiming to stimulate the classroom peer context to take classmate influences into account.