bullying involvement social attachments cross-national life satisfaction adolescents
Abstract:
Bullying offending and victimization have become a recent subject of interest in research with the expansion of technology and social media. The analyses in this paper focus on the effects of family, peer, and teacher relationships, as well as life satisfaction, on any bullying offending, chronic offending, any bullying victimization, and chronic victimization across Germany and Poland. The results showed that there were significant negative relationships between social attachments and bullying involvement across both countries. Life satisfaction was shown to partially mediate some of the effects of the dependent variables, but only significantly in victimization across the countries. These results support social bond theory and social learning theory and suggest policies that aim to strengthen social attachments in order to decrease the likelihood of bullying involvement among adolescents.
