introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of patience and its components (transcendence, tolerance, contentment, persistence, and hesitation) in predicting bullying among primary school children in shiraz, iran. another purpose was to compare patience and bullying between male and female students. method: the participants were 317 elementary school students (169 female...

the aim of the present study was to examine the casual relationship of parental bonding with bullying in schools, mediated bypersonality characteristics and student-teacher relationship quality. 200 second-grade male high-school students in ahvaz were selected using multi-stage random sampling method. the data were collected by the parental bonding instrument (pbi), neo-personality inventory-re...

abstract background: workplace bullying is a significant issue confronting the nursing profession both in iran and internationally. this study examined workplace bullying among a group of iranian nurses. materials and methods: the prevalence rate of bullying behavior among nurses was determined. data were collected from 162 nurses who worked in four hospitals located in west azerbaijan province...

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...

The main aim of this study was to examine whether an assessment of implicit bullying attitudes could add to the prediction of bullying behavior after controlling for explicit bullying attitudes. Primary school children (112 boys and 125 girls, M age = 11 years, 5 months) completed two newly developed measures of implicit bullying attitudes (a general Implicit Association Test on bullying and a ...

PURPOSE With the Internet quickly becoming a new arena for social interaction, it has also become a growing venue for bullying among youth. The purpose of the present study was to contrast the prevalence of Internet bullying with physical and verbal bullying among elementary, middle, and high school boys and girls, and to examine whether key predictors of physical and verbal bullying also predi...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth experience significant bullying that undermines their mental and physical health. National health organizations have called for the development of innovative strategies to address LGBTQ bullying. Pediatricians and other clinicians, medical and public health students, interdisciplinary researchers, government officials, school leaders,...

This article describes school's obligations related to bullying behavior, the assessment of bullying students and their victims, the evaluation of claimed damages due to bullying, and potential interventions for both individuals and school systems to reduce the frequency of bullying behavior. This article assists evaluators when assessing youth who are involved in bullying behavior, either as v...

BACKGROUND Parents are often concerned about repeated conflicts between their daughters and sons. However, there is little empirical research of sibling bullying. OBJECTIVE To conduct a review of existing studies of sibling bullying. Are there any associations between sibling bullying and peer bullying at school? What are the consequences of sibling bullying? Is there good justification why s...