The Effect Of Peer Relationship On Being Bullied In Middle School

Being bullied behavior has been a concern of the public.In recent years,the occurrence of bullying behavior in school has already drawn the attention from all sides,because it has brought vicious influence to our society and serious negative results to the students,which lead to the difficulties of academic adjustment and school adjustment and personality and mental disorders.At the same time,with the development of the students on their cognition,emotion,and behavior which start to be mature,adolescence begin to require to be independent from their parents,while peer relationship increasingly starts to play a much more important part on adolescence than their parents.This study will explore the influence of peer relationship on being bullied in high school,further,the study will also probe into the function of gender on it.The study,based on the previous studies,adopts three questionnaires.The first one is Child Bullying Questionnaire in Chinese version which was originated from Olweus and later revised by Zhang Xinwen,Wu Jianfen and so on.The second one is Self-rating Scale of Peer Relationship,and the third one is Social Anxiety Inventory in Chinese version which is originated from Liebowitz and revised by He Yanling,Zhang Mingyuan and so on.All the questionnaires are distributed to 424 students in a high school in Jinzhong,Shanxi Province through group survey.All the data are processed by SPSS22.0,and the analysis of the data are mainly involved in the methods of correlation analysis,reliability test,difference test,regression analysis.The results of the study are as follows:(1)Peer acceptance has obvious negative correlation with the level of being bullied,as well as social anxiety,while peer rejection has obvious positive correlation with the level of being bullied,as well as social anxiety.Besides,social anxiety and being bullied show clear positive correlation.(2)Society anxiety plays a partly-mediating role between peer acceptance and being bullied,and the interaction item of social anxiety and gender show significant effect on prediction of being bullied,as well as the interaction item of peer acceptance and gender.it means gender plays a regulatory-role not only between social anxiety and being bullied,but also between peer acceptance and being bullied.(3)Society anxiety plays a partly-mediating role between peer rejection and being bullied,and gender performs regulatory role between social anxiety and being bullied,which means the better peer relationship one gets,the less harm one receives through being bullied,and this situation is more obvious on females.Based on the above results,in the educational practice,the study come to improve adolescence’s peer relationship,relieve their social anxiety and attach importance to the difference on gender,in order to decrease the psychological harm on the ones who have been going through being bullied.The specific interference suggestions include paying more attention to the bullying behavior,and creating great atmosphere in campus.Besides,this study will try to make interfere strategies on improving peer relationship,perfecting the support system of students,taking measurements to reduce social anxiety and attaching importance to gender difference at all stages.All of these measures are aimed at relieving the psychological harm of being bullied and make sure they live a healthy life,both on their physical and psychological situation.