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Background: Social Dominance Orientation is a narrow personality trait that encompasses an individual’s tendency to accept and endorse group-based social hierarchies and the extent to which they desire their in-group to be superior to out-groups. Such attitudes about group hierarchies are often a prelude to discriminatory behaviour. Indeed, it has been argued that bullying is a form of social dominance orientation such that bullying behaviour coincides with negative attitudes about social groups in which the aggressors do not belong. However, researchers understanding of the role social dominance orientation plays in bullying is limited.
Methods: The systematic review searched through four databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PsycInfo and PsycArticles) to examine the peer-reviewed research on social dominance orientation and bullying behaviours. An initial 735 articles were retrieved. Following screening by two reviewers six articles were identified for the review.
Findings: The results found that there is limited empirical research that has investigated the role of social dominance orientation plays in bullying behaviour, and most of the research on this topic is a quantitative design. The limited findings suggest that SDO plays a role in bullying behaviours across a range of contexts.
Conclusions: The review addresses a critical gap in the literature by investigating what role social dominance orientation plays in bullying behaviour across all age groups globally. Given the role of this construct across a range of prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavious, it is important that research examines the relationship between these variables more comprehensively to inform policy and practice.
Keywords
cyberbullying; social dominance orientation
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Mixed method study |
