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Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 2/2016

22-03-2015

The Social, Behavioral, and Emotional Correlates of Bullying and Victimization in a School-Based Sample

Auteurs: Farrah N. Golmaryami, Paul J. Frick, Sheryl A. Hemphill, Rachel E. Kahn, Annie M. Crapanzano, Andrew M. Terranova

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 2/2016

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Abstract

Bullying is a prevalent problem in schools that is associated with a number of negative outcomes for both the child who bullies and his or her victims. In a community sample of 284 ethnically diverse school-children (54.2 % girls) between the ages of 9 and 14 years (M = 11.28, SD = 1.82), the current study examined whether the level of victimization moderated the association between bullying and several behavioral, social, and emotional characteristics. These characteristics were specifically chosen to integrate research on distinct developmental pathways to conduct problems with research on the characteristics shown by children who bully others. Results indicated that both bullying and victimization were independently associated with conduct problems. However, there was an interaction between bullying and victimization in the prediction of callous-unemotional (CU) traits, such that the association between bullying and CU traits was stronger for those lower on victimization. Further, bullying was positively associated with positive attitudes towards bullying and anger expression and neither of these associations were moderated by the level of victimization. In contrast, bullying was not associated with the child’s perceived problems regulating anger, suggesting that children with higher levels of bullying admit to expressing anger but consider this emotional expression as being under their control.
Voetnoten
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The victimization scale was developed to include both relational victimization and overt victimization and past research has supported its use as a total scale (Crick and Bigbee 1998; Crick and Grotpeter 1996; Paquette and Underwood 1999). In the current sample, we repeated analyses with the relational and overt victimization items separately and the results were very similar, with the exception that the correlation between anger expression and overt victimization reached statistical significance.
 
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Given that the conduct problems variable was highly skewed, all analyses were run with both the raw variable and a log transformed variable. Results were very similar for both the raw and transformed variable with the only difference being that the correlation between conduct problems and anger inhibition reached statistical significance using the transformed variable. Thus, the results are reported using the raw variable.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
The Social, Behavioral, and Emotional Correlates of Bullying and Victimization in a School-Based Sample
Auteurs
Farrah N. Golmaryami
Paul J. Frick
Sheryl A. Hemphill
Rachel E. Kahn
Annie M. Crapanzano
Andrew M. Terranova
Publicatiedatum
22-03-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 2/2016
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-015-9994-x

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