TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations between Dutch and Indian adolescents' bullying role behavior and peer-group status
AU - Pronk, Jeroen
AU - Lee, Nikki C.
AU - Sandhu, Damanjit
AU - Kaur, Kirandeep
AU - Kaur, Shubhdip
AU - Olthof, Tjeert
AU - Goossens, Frits A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by grant 465-11-030 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded to Frits A. Goossens as part of the Indian-European Research Network on Bullying, Cyberbullying, Pupil Safety and Well-being funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
Publisher Copyright:
© International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Contemporary research adopts an evolutionary theoretical perspective in which bullying is strategic behavior that is conducive to peer-group status enhancement. Within this view, a high social status (i.e., popularity) has been abociated with bullying others, while a high affiliative status (i.e., preference) has been abociated with defending others. This study investigated whether the abociations between adolescents' bullying role behavior (i.e., bully, follower, defender, outsider, and victim) and their peer-group status (i.e., popularity and preference) are crob-culturally similar. A multigroup path modeling analysis on a sample of Dutch (n = 219; 53.4% boys; Mage = 13.8 years, SD = 9 months) and Indian (n = 480; 60.8% boys; Mage = 13.8 years, SD = 12 months) adolescents suggested that these abociations were indeed largely crob-culturally similar and consistent with previous findings, with one exception. While defending was abociated with a relatively average popularity status position for Dutch adolescents, it was abociated with a high popularity status position for Indian adolescents. In general, the findings are supportive of the evolutionary theoretical perspective, but the differential abociation between defending and popularity for Dutch and Indian adolescents seems to also require a cultural perspective.
AB - Contemporary research adopts an evolutionary theoretical perspective in which bullying is strategic behavior that is conducive to peer-group status enhancement. Within this view, a high social status (i.e., popularity) has been abociated with bullying others, while a high affiliative status (i.e., preference) has been abociated with defending others. This study investigated whether the abociations between adolescents' bullying role behavior (i.e., bully, follower, defender, outsider, and victim) and their peer-group status (i.e., popularity and preference) are crob-culturally similar. A multigroup path modeling analysis on a sample of Dutch (n = 219; 53.4% boys; Mage = 13.8 years, SD = 9 months) and Indian (n = 480; 60.8% boys; Mage = 13.8 years, SD = 12 months) adolescents suggested that these abociations were indeed largely crob-culturally similar and consistent with previous findings, with one exception. While defending was abociated with a relatively average popularity status position for Dutch adolescents, it was abociated with a high popularity status position for Indian adolescents. In general, the findings are supportive of the evolutionary theoretical perspective, but the differential abociation between defending and popularity for Dutch and Indian adolescents seems to also require a cultural perspective.
KW - Bullying dynamic
KW - crob-cultural
KW - defending
KW - evolutionary theory
KW - peer-group status
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U2 - 10.1177/0165025416679743
DO - 10.1177/0165025416679743
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031324462
SN - 0165-0254
VL - 41
SP - 735
EP - 742
JO - International Journal of Behavioral Development
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
IS - 6
ER -