A teenager's predisposition to a bullying role: the relationship with self-attitude and personality traits

bullying, teenagers, school students, personal traits, self-attitude

Introduction: Bullying is especially common in the teenage environment, in the real world, and in the digital one. In a bullying situation, victims are not only sufferers, but also other role positions – initiators and their accomplices, defenders of victims and even unwitting observers. Research aim is interrelation of predispositions to bullying roles with personal traits and self-attitudes revealing. Methods and sample group: Empirical techniques “Bullyinf-roles structure research technique” (Norkina E.G.), “Bid Five” (Costa P.T., McCrae R.R.), “Self-attitude research technique” (Pantileyev R.S.), statistics methods. Sample – 104 school-students (9 grade). Results: Most of tested teenagers tend to the role of "Defender", the second –"Initiator", the third – potential “Victims”. The least – "Accomplices" and "Observers". The potential "Initiators" are people with high level of extraversion and self-attachment, and low level of neuroticism. The potential "Defender" role correlates with the increasing conscientiousness and agreeableness. The tendency to be a "Victim" combines with increasing neuroticism, self-accusations, intrinsic conflictness. The potential "Observer" role correlates with degreasing self-attachment. The interrelations of the studied indicators with the “Accomplice” role were not revealed. Conclusion: The discovered interrelations of the studied indicators allow us to determine the characteristics that can become a risk factor for being in a particular role in a bullying situation.

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