Citation

Veenstra R, Lindenberg S, Zijlstra BJH, de Winter AF, Verhulst FC, Ormel J. Child Dev. 2007; 78(6): 1843-1854.

Affiliation

University of Groningen.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01102.x

PMID

17988325

Abstract

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.

Language: en