The dyadic nature of bullying and victimization: testing a dual-perspective theory.
For this study, information on Who Bullies Who was collected from 54 school classes with 918 children (M age = 11) and 13,606 dyadic relations. Bullying and victimization were viewed separately from the point of view of the bully and the victim. The two perspectives were highly complementary. The probability of a bully-victim relationship was higher if the bully was more dominant than the victim, and if the victim was more vulnerable than the bully and more rejected by the class. In a bully-victim dyad, boys were more often the bullies. There was no finding of sex effect for victimization. Liking reduced and disliking increased the probability of a bully-victim relationship.
Veenstra
René
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Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen, the Netherlands. d.r.veenstra@rug.nl
Lindenberg
Siegwart
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Zijlstra
Bonne J H
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De Winter
Andrea F
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Verhulst
Frank C
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Ormel
Johan
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D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012938:Social Perception; D012963:Sociometric Techniques