Personality and family relations of children who bully

By Irene Connolly, M. O'moore. 2003

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There is a paucity of studies on the personality and family relations of children who bully. The aim of the present study was to examine the level of Psychoticism, Neuroticism and Extraversion in a group of school going girls and boys who were bullied. A further aim was to examine the relationships that the children had with their families. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Junior (1975) was used to measure the dimensions of personality and the Family Relations Test (Bene and Anthony, 1957) to elicit both the emotions that the children had towards each member of the family and the reciprocity of their emotions. The study comprised 228 children (aged 6-16 years), 115 of whom had been categorised as `bullies' and 113 `controls'. The results indicated that children who bullied exhibited greater emotional inhibition and attributed significantly more negative statements to themselves than children who did not bully. The children who bullied also demonstrated an ambivalent relationship with their siblings, mothers and fathers. The controls on the other hand displayed positive relationships with members of their family. Moreover children who bullied scored higher on extraversion, psychoticism and neuroticism than their counterparts who did not bully. The findings highlight the need for early identification and the involvement of the family in the intervention of children who bully. Language: en

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. David P. Farrington
2. C. MacKinnon-Lewis
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5. J. Ringrose
6. Maria M. Ttofi
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In Social Psychology

1. David P. Farrington
2. A. Baldry
3. E. Renold
4. Osman Tolga Aricak
5. J. Ringrose
6. Maria M. Ttofi
7. S. Georgiou
8. Dorothy Espelage

Citations in the corpus

• Individual risk factors for school bullying (2010, background): “In Dublin, Connolly and O’Moore (2003) found that bullies tended to be high on Eysenck’s personality dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism.”
• Bullying and Victimization Among Boys and Girls in Middle School (2009, background): “Ambivalent and less cohesive family relationships, harsh discipline practices, and inconsistent and authoritarian parenting are more likely to be associated with bullies than nonbullies (Connolly & O’Moore, 2003; Rigby, 1993; Shields & Cicchetti, 2001; Stevens et al., 2002).”
• Normative cruelties and gender deviants: the performative effects of bully discourses for girls and boys in school (2010, background): “S e e h t t p://o rc a .cf.ac.uk/policies.h t ml for u s a g e policies.”
• Psychiatric Symptomatology as a Predictor of Cyberbullying among University Students (2009, background): “According to Connolly and O’Moore (2003), pure-bullying is strongly related to psychoticism and neuroticism.”