BACKGROUND Developmental theories for the aetiology of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) suggest that both individual features (e.g., childhood dysregulated behaviour) and negative environmental experiences (e.g., maladaptive parenting, peer victimisation) may lead to the development of BPD symptoms during adolescence. Few prospective studies have examined potential aetiological pathways in...

The aim of this study is to understand if criminalising bullying a solution counter and prevent the phenomenon. Italian legislative proposal criminalisation offers hints discuss about general problem while underlining that penal not answer solve complex social as (and cyberbullying) is. creation specific crime determines simplification question because it concentrates attention on dyad bully-vi...

The aim of the current study was to examine associations between different types executive functions (EFs) and bullying involvement in adolescent boys girls. A self-report questionnaire administered 385 adolescents (mean age = 12.6 years) from nine junior high schools France. Participants were divided into four groups: pure victims, bully-victims, bullies, noninvolved. Their parents completed B...

The current research used meta-analysis to determine whether (a) sex differences emerged in cyber-bullying frequency, (b) if age moderated any sex effect, and (c) if any additional moderators (e.g., publication year and status, country and continent of data collection) influenced the sex effect. Theoretically, if cyber-bullying is considered a form of traditional bullying and aggression, males ...

The present study was conducted to predict bullying roles over a six years time period and across contexts differing in the degree of peer hierarchies. Out of two representative data sets from primary (N = 1525) and secondary school (N = 2958), 282 children (156 boys; 126 girls) were followed up longitudinally. Self reports on bullying experiences and peer reports about social status were asses...

OBJECTIVE Relationships between bully victimization and symptoms of depression/anxiety were examined. In addition, it was studied whether this relationship was moderated by specific cognitive coping strategies. METHODS Participants were 582 secondary school students who filled out online self-report questionnaires on bully victimization, cognitive coping, and depression/anxiety. (Moderated) M...

This study aims to find out the differences in the bullying experience betweenboys and girls in different perspectives and to find out the predictive power ofcognitive, social and environmental factors on students’ bully and victimtendencies. At last, through this research, this study aims to gain a syntheticperspective on bully phenomenon by considering various aspects in order...

AIMS To examine the association of direct (e.g. hitting) and relational (e.g. hurtful manipulation of peer relationships) bullying experience with common health problems. METHODS A total of 1639 children (aged 6-9 years) in 31 primary schools were studied in a cross sectional study that assessed bullying with a structured child interview and common health problems using parent reports. Main o...

The present study examined to what extent the number of friends and their social and personal characteristics were related to peer victimization in adolescence. Participants were 2,180 adolescents (1,143 girls), aged 11-18 (M = 14.2), who were classified as victims, bully-victims, or non-involved (i.e., adolescents who neither bullied others nor were victimized by others). Three types of friend...

The prevalence of direct and relational bullying and their differential relationship to behaviour problems in young primary school children was investigated. Individual interviews were conducted with 1982 children aged 6 9 years (mean age 7.6 years) and 1639 parents completed the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire regarding behaviour problems of their children. Of the 1639 children with bo...