Bullying as a group process: Participant roles and their relations to social status within the group

Salmivalli, Christina; Lagerspetz, Kirsti; Björkqvist, Kaj; Österman, Karin; Kaukiainen, Ari

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1996)22:1<1::aid-ab1>3.0.co;2-t

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Bullying as a group process: Participant roles and their relations to social status within the group

Published in Aggressive Behavior • Dec 6, 1998

Authors:

Christina Salmivalli

Kirsti Lagerspetz

Kaj Björkqvist

Abstract

Bullying was investigated as a group process, a social phenomenon taking place in a school setting among 573 Finnish sixth-grade children (286 girls, 287 boys) aged 12–13 years. Different Participant Roles taken by individual children in the bullying process were examined and related to a) self-esti...

Subject

Belongingness

Sociometric status

Psychology

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