PURSUING BULLYING
PURSUING BULLYING
Author(s): Ioana TocaiSubject(s): School education, Educational Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Education
Published by: Ediktura Beladi
Keywords: bullying; victimization; bullying representation; bullying perceptions; bullying motives;
Summary/Abstract: Bullying represents any act of unwanted aggression committed by an individual aggressor or by a group of abusers who are not intimately related, involving power imbalance in the perpetrators’ favor. Bullying can cause physical, psychological, social, and educational harm plus moral distress for the victim (Gladden et al. 2014: 17). The present study investigates recognition and children's representations of bullying phenomenon in a school community, in order to better understand its representations in a specific community. Study design combined qualitative and quantitative measures and the results provided a starting point for analyzing the profile of subjects involved in bullying interactions. The sample is from secondary school pupils in the 5th and 6th grades. Participants were 101 pupils of 11-12 age. Instruments included vignettes, indirect scenarios interpreted from drawings, and open-ended questions.
Journal: Revista Universitară de Sociologie
- Issue Year: XVI/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 115-124
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English