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Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence
Sep, 2024;34 (3): 1018-1034.

Heterogeneity of adolescent bullying perpetrators: Subtypes based on victimization and peer status.

Tiina Turunen, Sarah T Malamut, Takuya Yanagida, Christina Salmivalli
Author Information
  1. Tiina Turunen: INVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. ORCID
  2. Sarah T Malamut: INVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. ORCID
  3. Takuya Yanagida: Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. ORCID
  4. Christina Salmivalli: INVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. ORCID
PMID: 38808624 DOI: 10.1111/jora.12986

Abstract

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.

Keywords

bullying bully‐victims latent profile analysis peer status popularity victimization

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Grants

  1. F32 HD100054/NICHD NIH HHS
  2. 320162/Research Council of Finland (INVEST Research Flagship Center)
  3. F32HD100054/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health

MeSH Term

Humans
Bullying
Adolescent
Male
Peer Group
Crime Victims
Female
Adolescent Behavior
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