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Funding information This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. 1247394, the Fahs‐Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation, the Delaware Bar Foundation, the Delaware Criminal Justice Council and the University of Delaware General University Research Grant. Abstract The present study investigated bidirectional relations be‐ tween peer victimization and internalizing symptoms, with a focus on three forms of victimization (physical, verbal, rela‐ tional) and two types of internalizing symptoms (depressive, anxious). In the fall and spring, children (N = 1,264–1,402 fourth and fifth graders depending on time point and data source) reported on their victimization, and teachers reported on children’s depressive and anxious symptoms. In a model including the broad constructs of victimization and internal‐ izing symptoms, bidirectional relations emerged, with earlier victimization predicting increases in later internalizing symp‐ toms and earlier internalizing symptoms predicting increases in later victimization. These bidirectional relations did not hold in two additional models, the first of which included the three forms of victimization and internalizing symptoms and the second of which included victimization and the two types of internalizing symptoms. Rather, results of the first model suggested that earlier internalizing symptoms predicted later physical, verbal, and relational (marginal) victimization, and the second model did not fit the data well. Findings are dis‐ cussed in terms of implications of bidirectional relations be‐ tween victimization and internalizing symptoms.