Theoretical background
Youth worldwide is currently facing a mental health crisis (McGorry et al., 2024). One risk factor contributing to this poor mental health is bullying among peers (Li et al., 2024). Efforts to prevent and stop bullying and, thus, to buffer psychological distress, should be implemented in the school environment. Therefore, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry...
School bullying occurs in a social context. Some children might perpetrate, assist or defend against bullying, but we need to consider their wider social bonds. Theories of homophily, peer learning and social identity suggest that children are like their friends, behave in similar ways, and protect their close friendships. The aim of this paper is to examine reciprocity and friendship quality...
Mainstream research on bullying and peer violence in schools has primarily focused on analyzing the roles of students, and narrowly searching for causes at the level of the perpetrators, their families, and schools. Recently, researchers have begun to address this issue from a broader perspective by incorporating social-ecological theory and explaining the causes of violence at various levels...
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...
This qualitative study investigates how former bullying victims make sense of their most significant bullying experiences and how these experiences shaped their psychological adjustment. Guided by Attribution Theory (Weiner, 1985), this study explores two key questions: (1) How do former victims attribute causation to their bullying experiences? (2) How did these incidents impact their mental...
