Bullying among Australian School Children: Reported Behavior and Attitudes toward Victims

Rigby, Ken; Slee, Phillip T.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1991.9924646

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“…These data are seen as positive, because t, in general, the bystander deals with the violence daily and remains silent due to the fear of becoming the next victim of the aggressor 27 . In addition, the data of this study also indicated that the number of boys and girls who helped peers was quite similar, going against the literature that points to girls as being the ones to mainly assume this role 4,28,29 . The data from this study also showed a strong association between being a spectator and other roles in bullying at school, especially with also being the aggressor.…”

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Association between spectator and other roles in school bullying

Zequinão

Medeiros

Pereira

et al. 2016

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Abstract:Introduction: The school bullying is characterized by repetitiveness of aggression and the intentionality to injure or cause suffering to others. The bystanders to this phenomenon tend to be mainly responsible for the course that bullying will take and its results.Objective: To analyse the association between the role of bystander with the other possible roles played in bullying.Methods: A total of 409 children from the third to seventh grade participated in this study, with an average age of 11 years (SD = 1.61), enrolled in two municipal public schools in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The instruments used were: one of the scales of the Questionnaire for the Study of Violence Among Peers, to identify bystanders, and the Olweus Questionnaire, to describe the possible roles played in school bullying.Results: It was found that most of the participants assumed the role of bystander in school bullying. However, an association was found with regard to gender and being a bystander. Also, strong association was found between being a bystander and the other roles played in bullying, primarily in relation to the bullies. Conclusion:These results reinforce the importance of bystanders in these aggressions, not only because they represent most of the participants, but mainly because of the positive or negative reinforcement they can offer in these aggressive behaviours. Therefore, the incentive and the encouragement of these students to denounce the aggressors, as well as defending the victims is essential to reduce school bullying. Keywords

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Association between spectator and other roles in school bullying

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Pereira

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“…Another possible explanation may be that the negative stigma perceived by their peers could hinder the bystanders' willingness to help the victim. Rigby and Slee (1991) found that many children and young people look down on children who are bullied because they are perceived as too "needy" and "demanding." This potential stigma may greatly increase their chance of being rejected by their peers.…”

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Peer Support as a Mediator between Bullying Victimization and Depression

Du¹,

DeGuisto²,

Albright³

et al. 2018

IJPS

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Bullying has been one of the most common forms of school violence in the world. Many studies have shown that victims of bullying suffer from serious psychological issues. In the current study, the relationships between three variables: bullied victim, peer support, and depression symptom were assessed, using published data from the 2009-2010 Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Survey (N = 12,642). The data was collected from 314 public, Catholic, and other private schools in the United States that enrolled students from grades 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 or their equivalent in 50 states and the District of Columbia. The results indicated: (1) bullied victim was positively associated with depression symptom, with higher victimization score reporting higher depression symptoms; (2) bullied victim was negatively associated with peer support, with higher victimization score reporting lower peer support; (3) peer support was negatively related to depression symptoms; and (4) peer support partially mediates the relationship between victimization and depression symptoms among bullied students. This empirical study underscores the important role of peer support in mitigating the negative effects of bullying on the victim's depression symptoms, which also provide empirical support for intervention programs based on the peer support system.

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“…Women are reported to have a greater capacity for empathy than men, both in recognizing the emotion of others and experiencing the emotion themselves [Grover and Brockner, 1989;Hoffman, 1977]. Empathy is reported to be a component in the moderation of attitudes, particularly those that relate to the victims of aggression [Rigby and Slee, 1991], with women reporting more positive attitudes towards victims than men [Ireland, 1999]. Although research has not focused on attitudes of forensic staff towards the victims of self-harm, it could be argued that sex differences should be expected with women, as a consequence of their increased capacity for empathy, more likely to demonstrate understanding attitudes towards those who self-harm.…”

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Officer attitudes towards adult male prisoners who self‐harm: development of an attitudinal measure and investigation of sex differences

Ireland

Quinn

2006

Aggressive Behavior

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Purpose:The aim of the current study was to explore attitudes towards self-harm in a sample of prison officers, with subsidiary aims of assessing if these attitudes alter as a function of the prisoner's behavior and the sex of the participant. Method: One hundred and sixty-two officers (100 men and 62 women) completed a general measure of their attitudes towards prisoners and one designed to assess Attitudes towards Prisoners who Self-Harm (APSH). Participants rated their perceptions of two adult male prisoners depicted in vignettes. The vignettes depicted identical types of self-harm but varied the behavioral characteristics of the prisoners involved, with one depicted as ''well-behaved'' and the other as ''disruptive''. Results: Women were more likely than men to report positive attitudes towards self-harm and in particular were less likely than men to endorse negative myths regarding self-harm. The prisoner depicted as ''disruptive'' invoked increased negative attitudes than the ''well-behaved'' prisoner. This finding was consistent across sex. Conclusion: The current study indicates that APSH are comprised of a number of components that were influenced by the sex of the participant and the behavioral characteristics of the prisoners depicted. The implications of these findings to practice are discussed. Aggr. Behav. 33:63-72, 2007. r

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Bullying among Australian School Children: Reported Behavior and Attitudes toward Victims

Cited by 493 publications

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Association between spectator and other roles in school bullying

Association between spectator and other roles in school bullying

Peer Support as a Mediator between Bullying Victimization and Depression

Officer attitudes towards adult male prisoners who self‐harm: development of an attitudinal measure and investigation of sex differences

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