@article{ref1,
title="Bullying as strategic behavior: Relations with desired and acquired dominance in the peer group",
journal="Journal of school psychology",
year="2011",
author="Olthof, Tjeert and Goossens, Frits A. and Vermande, Marjolijn M. and Aleva, Elisabeth A. and van der Meulen, Matty",
volume="49",
number="3",
pages="339-359",
abstract="To examine whether bullying is strategic behavior aimed at obtaining or maintaining social dominance, 1129 9- to 12-year-old Dutch children were classified in terms of their role in bullying and in terms of their use of dominance oriented coercive and prosocial social strategies. Multi-informant measures of participants' acquired and desired social dominance were also included. Unlike non-bullying children, children contributing to bullying often were bistrategics in that they used both coercive and prosocial strategies and they also were socially dominant. Ringleader bullies also expressed a higher desire to be dominant. Among non-bullying children, those who tended to help victims were relatively socially dominant but victims and outsiders were not. Generally, the data supported the claim that bullying is dominance-oriented strategic behavior, which suggests that intervention strategies are more likely to be successful when they take the functional aspects of bullying behavior into account.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4405",
doi="10.1016/j.jsp.2011.03.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2011.03.003"
}