Bully/victim problems among school children are a matter ofconsiderable concern in Scandinavia and, more recently, in a number of other countries as well. Estimates based on the author's large-scale surveys indicate that some 9% ofthe students in grades 1 through 9 are fairly regular victims ofbullying and that 6-7% engage in bullying others with some regularity. It is argued that it is a funda...

In 1997, Stoller presented a leader election algorithm for a synchronous system with crash failures. The algorithm is an adaptation of Garcia-Molina’s Bully Algorithm that uses failure detectors instead of explicit timeouts. Since the characteristics of the algorithm closely resemble the Bully Algorithm Stoller does not give a formal correctness proof. However, although the algorithms appear si...

Research has demonstrated a link between internalizing factors and bullying perpetration and peer victimization; however, few studies have examined predictors of cognitive and psychosocial factors, such as locus of control and hopelessness. The current study examined cognitive and psychosocial factors in bullying perpetration and peer victimization in a sample of 469 middle school students. A m...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association of personality (Five Factor Model), coping and cyber-bullying/victimization experiences among 300 Greek pre-adolescent students attending the upper two primary school grades. Boys reported more frequent involvement in cyber-bullying incidents, while there were no significant gender differences in terms of cyber-victimization. In terms of ...

The first aim was to determine the prevalence of bullying behavior in the city of Split, Croatia. The second aim was to associate the specific bully status with demographic, family, psychosocial, behavioral, and school variables. This cross-sectional study with self-administered questionnaires included 567 children and 166 teachers. Study results revealed 16.3% of all children to have been invo...

The distribution of fishes at ten sites in the Te Arai River, a tributary of the lower Waipaoa River, is described and the impact on fishes of water abstraction for the Gisborne city supply is examined. The most widely distributed fish species was Cran's bully (Gobiomorphus basalis) which was found at all sites, followed by longfinned eels (Anguilla dieffenbachii) at 8 sites and shortfinned eel...

The increasing availability of Internet and cell phones has provided new avenues through which adolescents can bully. Electronic bullying is a new form of bullying that may threaten adolescent social and emotional development. In this study the relation between involvement in electronic and traditional bullying was examined. Eighty-four adolescents completed questionnaires regarding their invol...

Theory of Mind (TOM) is an ability to simulate mental activities, attribute intention, and predict behaviors of others. According to Ickes’s study (1990), there are strong correlation between empathy and TOM. However, whether they have any causal-effect relationship is still unclear. It is possible to differentiate the two processes from a developmental perspective since TOM ability develops la...