Research On Bullying And Self-concept Of Adolescent

Adolescent bullying is an important subject in developmental psychology and school psychology. Especially in recent years, with the phenomena of bullying increases, it is becoming more and more imperative for people to study the problem. The current study focused on adolescent bullying and self-concept in order to give some effective advices to reduce bullying radically.The study consisted of two phases. The first phase interviewed 176 teen-ages to study their perceptions of bullying and teen-ages involved in bullying. The second phase investigated 1221 students to examine the three main dimensions of self-concept( i.e. scholastic domain, social domain, self-esteem) of students involved in bullying. We designed the Bully / victims questionnaires by modifying "the life in school checklist" by Arora (1987) and the Self-concept scale by modifying Harter's PCSC (1982) scale respectively.The results included that students' perceptions of bullying were different from most researchers' definition of bullying. They didn't agree with the criterion of bullying in repetivity and unprovocative. And they believed a new criterion noted by Rigby. Those students involved in bullying could be classified into four categories. Results showed that: Compared with non-involved, Passive victims had relatively negative self-concept in social domain and poor self-esteem; provocative victims had relatively negative self-concept in scholastic and social domain and poor self-esteem. Anxious bullies had relatively negative self-concept in scholastic domain and poor self-esteem. Confident bullies had high self-esteem and common or more positive self-concept in scholastic and social domain.