CAUSES OF BULLYING, DIFFERENT REASONS FOR BULLYING AND CHARACTERISTICS - IDENTITY OF THE VICTIMS ACCORDING TO THE BULLIES (HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS)

Auteur/ices

  • Vasiliki Giannouli Assistant Professor, School Psychology, Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece
  • Georgios Vrakas Mathematician, MSc in Learning Difficulties, PhD Candidate, Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece
  • George Pavlidis Former Professor of Psychology and Learning Disabilities, Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece
  • Sarris Dimitrios Assistant Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v8i3.1386

Mots-clés :

learning difficulties, ADHD, victimization

Résumé

The research presents the results from the completion of a questionnaire exclusively by the participants of the study who have been perpetrators of acts of bullying. The results showed that the bullies to a small extent acknowledged that they became bullies because they felt powerful, because they like to dominate/oppress others, because they wanted recognition of their authority from their classmates, because they were afraid of becoming victims and because they had had previously been victims of bullying (in all cases the average value is equal to 2.0). Also, the results showed that the most important reason that pushed the bullies to bully was some particular characteristic of the victim (Mean=3.0, SD=1.0) and to a lesser extent identity -ethnicity, race, sexual orientation- (Mean=2.0, SD=1.0, Mean=2.0, SD=1.0, Mean=2.0, SD=1.0) respectively. According to the perpetrators, they bullied more often boys (Mean=3.0, SD=2.0), and students of their school (Mean=3.0, SD=2.0). Finally, it emerged that the most frequent form of bullying was derogatory comments (Mean=3.0, SD=2.0) followed by physical violence (Mean=2.0, SD=1.0).

 

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Biographies des auteurs

  • Vasiliki Giannouli, Assistant Professor, School Psychology, Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece

    Vasiliki Giannouli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Social Policy of the University of Macedonia with the academic subject 'School Psychology'. Is a graduate of the Pedagogical Academy of Heraklion (1987) and the Department of Psychology (RHBNC) Royal Holloway University of London, in (1993). The obtaining the doctoral degree was done by the same Department of Psychology (RHBNC) Royal Holloway University of London entitled 'The Development of Reading and Spelling in Greek Primary School children and Kindergarten'. Year of completion in (1998). Her postdoctoral research was held at the City University of London under the title 'Interventional methods of teaching children with Communication and Learning Problems' (1999-2000) while followed by the acquisition of two master's degrees later in the department of Special Education from Nottingham Trent University in (2001) and (2009).

  • Georgios Vrakas, Mathematician, MSc in Learning Difficulties, PhD Candidate, Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece

    Georgios Vrakas is a mathematician and teaches students with learning difficulties at the 4th high school of Stavroupoli in Thessaloniki. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. In my doctoral thesis, I investigate the relationship between learning difficulties and ADHD with school bullying.

  • George Pavlidis, Former Professor of Psychology and Learning Disabilities, Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece

    George Pavlidis is a Fellow, International Academy of Learning Disabilities Research Scientific Director of 39 'dyslexia Centers - Pavlidis Method'. Professor for 44 years in departments of Psychology, Pedagogy and in Medical Schools of well-known Universities in England, Greece and the USA. The Inventor - Professor George T. Pavlidis is an Internationally acclaimed Authority on Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder and Ocular Movement. He is also the Inventor of new technologies and methods, global recognition and radiation. Ιs an internationally renowned scientist in Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder and Ocular Kinesis. He is also the Inventor of new technologies and methods, global recognition and radiation.

  • Sarris Dimitrios, Assistant Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    methods, global recognition and radiation.

    Sarris Dimitrios is a clinical psychologist and teaches as a special education lecturer at the University of Ioannina. He studied psychology and pedagogy at the University of Ioannina. He continued both at the level of basic studies, separately, in psychology and the sciences of education: Licence, University of Bordeaux II (France), Maitrise University of Bordeaux II, and at the level of postgraduate studies, separately, in psychology and the sciences of education: DEA, Bordeaux II University and in clinical psychopathology: DEA, Bordeaux II University, DESS Psychopathologie Clinique, Bordeaux II University, DEA Psychopathologie, Bordeaux II University

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Publiée

2022-12-14

Numéro

Vol. 8 No 3 (2023)

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