Maladjustment of bully-victims: validation with three identification methods

An Yang, Xiang Li, Christina Salmivalli
2015 Educational Psychology  
We would like to thank Ph.D Antti Kärnä (University of Turku, Finland) and Ph.D Ihno Lee (Stanford University, The United States) for their advice in statistical analyses. Abstract 2 Although knowledge on the psychosocial (mal)adjustment of bully-victims, children who bully others and are victimized by others, has been increasing, the findings have been principally gained utilizing a single method to identify bully-victims. The present study examined the psychosocial adjustment of bully-victims
more » ... (as compared with pure bullies and pure victims) identified by Olweus' global measures, peer-nominations, and a profile method based on Olweus' multiple measures of bullying/victimization forms. The sample included 17,586 students from grades 3 to 8 (9 to 15 years old) in Finland. Bully-victims formed the smallest group, whose subjective experience of maladjustment differed from that of bullies, rather than that of victims. Both the prevalence and the relative maladjustment of bullyvictims varied across identification methods, gender, and school level.
doi:10.1080/01443410.2015.1015492 fatcat:5g3wrgdqw5asdesbtghj6mtahq