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Eysenck's Personality dimensions and their association with role in bullying behaviour in elementary school children

Previous research which has investigated the association between bullying behavior and personality have shown an association between victimisation and introversion, as well as between bullying and psychoticism. However, there is a paucity of studies which have included different roles in bullying behaviour. The aim of this study was to examine differences in personality between bullies, victims, bully/victims and neutral participants. 372 elementary school children (192 female and 180 male), aged 10 to 14 years, completed School Relationship Questionnaire (SRQ), as well as Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. On the basis of results in SRQ, 57% of children were classified as involved in bullying behaviour, either as bullies (13%), victims (16%) or bullies/victims (28%), while 41% were neutral participants. Significant diffferences in personality dimensions between these groups were found. The results have shown that the victims and bullies/victims had significantly higher score on neuroticism scale than other participants in bullying behaviour. The victims also had lower score on extraversion scale. Furthermore, bullies had higher results on extraversion, and lower on neuroticism scale. As expected, the bullies and bullies/victims had higher level of psychoticism than the victims and neutral participants. The results showed that Eysenck's Personality dimensions could be important variables in understanding the bulling behaviour.

Eysenck's personalite dimensiond; bullying

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