PREDICTORS OF SCHOOL BULLYING AGAINST YOUNGER ADOLESCENTS FROM PEERS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to consider some family and environmental predictors of bullying (school baiting) of younger adolescents against their peers. The study involved 758 teenagers aged 10-13 years from schools in Moscow, Moscow region and Astrakhan. It has been revealed that boys of 11 to 13 years old are bullied more often at school, while girls more often become the aggressors who use the verbal and social victimization of the victim in the process of baiting. It is noted that the high level of parents’ cruelty and aggression is connected with the possibility of systematic violence and victimization of peers. The list of protective means is defined. According to the children they will protect them from baiting at school. The authors prove the need for a more wide consideration of the school baiting problem in a complex socio-psychological context.