Examining the Relationship Between Low Empathy and Bullying
نویسندگان
چکیده
This paper investigates the relationship between cognitive and affective empathy and bullying. A bullying questionnaire was completed by 376 males and 344 females aged about 15 in Hertfordshire. Low affective empathy was significantly related to bullying for females, but not for males. However, for both males and females low affective empathy was related to frequent vs. occasional bullying. Low total empathy was related to violent bullying by males and to indirect bullying by females. Cognitive empathy was not significantly related to any type of bullying by males or females. Aggr. Behav. 32:540–550. 2006. r 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
منابع مشابه
The mediating role of empathy in the relationship between family functioning and bullying in students
: Bullying, as the most prominent type of violence in schools, is defined as a state of power imbalance between two individuals in which the stronger person hurts the weaker person through repeatedly physical, verbal or psychological causes. The present study aimed at identifying the role of family functioning in bullying behaviors by affective empathy. Statistical population of the study inclu...
متن کاملThe Relationship Between Perceived Parental Bonding and Bullying: The Mediating Role of Empathy
Despite the importance of parenting in the development of empathy in children as well as their involvement in bullying behaviours, no study has ever examined the mediating role of empathy in the relationship between parental bonding and bullying and victimization. The present study aims in examining these relationships. Participants included 504 children (255 boys, 246 girls) from different pri...
متن کاملPreservice Preschool Teachers' Responses to Bullying Scenarios: The Roles of Years of Study and Empathy
The present study is aim to examine whether preservice preschool teachers' respond differently to physical, verbal and relational bullying, and how their years of study and trait empathy related their responses. There were 242 preservice teachers in the present study. Empathy was measured with the self-report Interpersonal Reactive Index; the Bullying Attitude Questionnaire was used to assess t...
متن کاملThe Relationship Between Victimization With Bullying and Aggression at School
Background: This research aimed to study the relationship between bullying victimization and aggression among high-school students in Zahedan City suburban areas. Methods: The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all junior high-school students in this area studying in the 2015-2016 academic year. Of them, a total of 365 students were selected ran...
متن کاملEmpathy and involvement in bullying in children and adolescents: a systematic review.
Based on the premise that bullies are deficient in empathy or even lack it completely, bullying prevention and intervention programs often include empathy training. These programs are not always as effective as they aim to be, which may be caused by a failure to acknowledge the multidimensional nature of empathy as well as its complex association with involvement in bullying. To provide a clear...
متن کامل