Open AccessFuture Orientation and School Bullying Among Adolescents in Rural China
Author(s) -
Shu Ling Gao,
Ko Ling Chan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sage open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 2158-2440
DOI - 10.1177/2158244014568463
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , developmental psychology , social psychology , orientation (vector space) , future orientation , friendship , clinical psychology , mathematics , geometry
This study examined the relations among future orientation, schoolbonding, and school bullying perpetration behaviors. Data were collected from 677seventh- to ninth-grade adolescents in an area in Southwest China. Specifically,students completed the Future-Orientation Questionnaire, the Psychological Sense ofSchool Membership scale, and the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire to assesstheir future orientation, school bonding, and bullying behaviors, respectively. Resultsindicated that students’ future orientation (toward education or occupation) wasnegatively associated with school bullying perpetration. Future orientation was alsosignificantly associated with their feeling of school bonding. School bonding had asignificant indirect effect (b = .37) on the relation between future orientation in theeducational domain and school bullying behavior, and also played a significant mediatingrole in the relation between future orientation in the occupational domain and schoolbullying perpetration (b = .30). This research suggests that school bonding may be onemechanism by which children’s orientation toward future education or future occupationmay have an effect on their bullying perpetration behaviors