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JOURNAL OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 339-359Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2011.03.003
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Bullying; Group processes; Social dominance
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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. (C) 2011 Society for the Study of School Psychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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