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- Title
Bullying as a Display of Social Dominance Orientation.
- Authors
Goodboy, Alan K.; Martin, Matthew M.; Rittenour, Christine E.
- Abstract
The study employed Social Dominance Theory in a communicative assessment of bullying in secondary education. Participants were 189 college students who completed a survey about their bullying perpetration in secondary school (physical victimization, verbal victimization, social manipulation, and attacks on property) and their current propensity to accept social hierarchy myths (social dominance orientation). Social dominance orientation was correlated positively with all four types of bullying behavior. Moreover, bullies’ sex moderated the relationships between social dominance orientation and physical forms of bullying (physical victimization, attacks on property). For communication scholars assessing bullying, these findings propose that this single variable (social dominance orientation) be included when addressing the psychological underpinnings of bullying behaviors.
- Subjects
SCHOOL bullying; SOCIAL dominance; MANIPULATIVE behavior; STUDENT attitudes; SECONDARY education -- Social aspects
- Publication
Communication Research Reports, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
0882-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/08824096.2016.1154838