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The Dyadic Nature of Bullying and Victimization: Testing a Dual‐Perspective Theory
Author(s) -
Veenstra René,
Lindenberg Siegwart,
Zijlstra Bonne J. H.,
De Winter Andrea F.,
Verhulst Frank C.,
Ormel Johan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01102.x
Subject(s) - psychology , dyad , developmental psychology , social psychology , perspective (graphical) , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , suicide prevention , medical emergency , medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science
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.