Bullying is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon that directly affects hundreds of
millions of people each year. The importance of bullying has led to research in the last two …

This article reviews current research on the relational processes involved in peer bullying,
considering developmental antecedents and long-term consequences. The following …

classic ecological theory is used as a framework to review the documented risk and
protective factors associated with involvement in school-related bullying during childhood …

A strong societal interest in the phenomenon of peer harassment or victimization/bullying
first started in Sweden in the late 1960s and early 1970s under the designation “mobbning” …

Literature on aggression often suggests that individual deficiencies, such as social
incompetence, psychological difficulties, or troublesome home environments, are …

Bullying appears to be ubiquitous across cultures, involving hundreds of millions of
adolescents worldwide, and has potentially serious negative consequences for its …

Social groups across species rapidly self-organize into hierarchies, where members vary in
their level of power, influence, skill, or dominance. In this review, we explore the nature of …

Objective The present study set out to investigate which role empathy plays in traditional
bullying and cyberbullying in a sample of adolescents from Greece and Spain. Furthermore …

The literature suggests that status goals are one of the driving motivations behind bullying
behavior, yet this conjecture has rarely if ever been examined empirically. This study …

This study focused on the dyadic defending relationships of victimized children in grades 3,
4, and 5 (N= 7481 children from 356 school classes, mean ages 10—12 years). Most of the …