Bullying as strategic behavior: relations with desired and acquired dominance in the peer group |
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| Authors: | Olthof Tjeert Goossens Frits A Vermande Marjolijn M Aleva Elisabeth A van der Meulen Matty |
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| Affiliation: | a Department of Developmental Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsb Department of Special Education, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsc Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlandsd Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlandse Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | To examine whether bullying is strategic behavior aimed at obtaining or maintaining social dominance, 1129 9- to 12-year-old Dutch children were classified in terms of their role in bullying and in terms of their use of dominance oriented coercive and prosocial social strategies. Multi-informant measures of participants’ acquired and desired social dominance were also included. Unlike non-bullying children, children contributing to bullying often were bistrategics in that they used both coercive and prosocial strategies and they also were socially dominant. Ringleader bullies also expressed a higher desire to be dominant. Among non-bullying children, those who tended to help victims were relatively socially dominant but victims and outsiders were not. Generally, the data supported the claim that bullying is dominance-oriented strategic behavior, which suggests that intervention strategies are more likely to be successful when they take the functional aspects of bullying behavior into account. |
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| Keywords: | Bullying Group processes Social dominance |
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