TY - JOUR
T1 - Heterogeneity of adolescent bullying perpetrators: Subtypes based on victimization and peer status
AU - Turunen, Tiina
AU - Malamut, Sarah T.
AU - Yanagida, Takuya
AU - Salmivalli, Christina
N1 - Funding Information:
The writing of this article was supported by the INVEST Research Flagship Center (Research Council of Finland Flagship Program, decision number: 320162) and partially supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (F32HD100054; awarded to the second author). The data used in this study were collected during a randomized controlled evaluation trial of the KiVa program developed at the University of Turku. The authors wish to thank the whole KiVa project team for their continued support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence.
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - We identified different types of adolescent bullying perpetrators and nonbullies based on peer-reported bullying, victimization, and peer status (popularity, likeability, and rejection) and examined differences between bully subtypes in typical forms of bullying perpetrated. Moreover, we studied how bully subtypes differed from nonbullies with varying levels of victimization and peer status in academic and psychosocial adjustment. The study utilizes data from 10,689 adolescents (48.3% boys, mean age 14.7 years). Latent profile analysis identified three distinct subgroups of bullies: popular-liked bullies (13.5%), popular-rejected bully-victims (5.8%), and bully-victims (6.9%), and four groups on nonbullies. High-status bullies (popular-liked and popular-rejected) resembled nonbullies in many ways and had even lower social anxiety, whereas bully-victims were the most maladjusted group. Overall, popularity seems to protect adolescents from social anxiety, and victimization is related to internalizing problems. Results suggest that bullying, victimization, and peer status can be used to identify distinct subtypes of bullies.
AB - We identified different types of adolescent bullying perpetrators and nonbullies based on peer-reported bullying, victimization, and peer status (popularity, likeability, and rejection) and examined differences between bully subtypes in typical forms of bullying perpetrated. Moreover, we studied how bully subtypes differed from nonbullies with varying levels of victimization and peer status in academic and psychosocial adjustment. The study utilizes data from 10,689 adolescents (48.3% boys, mean age 14.7 years). Latent profile analysis identified three distinct subgroups of bullies: popular-liked bullies (13.5%), popular-rejected bully-victims (5.8%), and bully-victims (6.9%), and four groups on nonbullies. High-status bullies (popular-liked and popular-rejected) resembled nonbullies in many ways and had even lower social anxiety, whereas bully-victims were the most maladjusted group. Overall, popularity seems to protect adolescents from social anxiety, and victimization is related to internalizing problems. Results suggest that bullying, victimization, and peer status can be used to identify distinct subtypes of bullies.
KW - bully-victims
KW - bullying
KW - latent profile analysis
KW - peer status
KW - popularity
KW - victimization
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85194857188
U2 - 10.1111/jora.12986
DO - 10.1111/jora.12986
M3 - Article
VL - 34
SP - 1018
EP - 1034
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
IS - 3
ER -