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RECOMMENDATIONS TO ENHANCE VALIDITY, TRANSPARENCY, AND COMPATIBILITY OF BULLYING RESEARCH.
Volk, A.A., Veenstra, R., & Espelage, D. L.
Aggression and violent behaviour 36. pp. 34 - 43.

MY FORWORD:
I, purposely, engaged volumes of research into bullying as extra-curricular academic study.
I have filleted some excerpts for your consideration, as we examine 'bullying'.
Note that the 'power' exerted via 'power imbalance' may be physical, hierarchical, economic, social, or intellectual (to name some).


(p. 35) "...Aggressive, goal-directed, behaviour that harms another individual within the context of a POWER IMBALANCE" (Volk, Dane & Martin. 2014).

(p. 35) "...tease apart PROXIMATE GOALS ... from the ULTIMATE GOALS".

(p. 35) "...the victim represents the means through which to send a signal about a willingness to use aggression to OBTAIN or MAINTAIN high social STATUS".

(p. 35) "...HARM is a PERCEPTION of the victim that relates to both the FREQUENCY and the INTENSITY".

(p. 35) FREQUENCY INTENSITY INDIVIDUAL RESILIENCY HARM.

(P. 35) "More powerful bullies appear less susceptible to anti-bullying interventions"

(p. 36) "...being socially dominant leads to future bullying (Van der Ploey, Steglish, Salmivalli & Veenstra, 2015)... as do more UNEQUAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES (Garandeau, Lee & Salmivalli, 2014).

(p. 36) "...some [positive] bystanders intervene in bullying even when there is no immediate benefit for them doing so"
"On the other hand, [negative bystanders] people tend to show a strong tendency to associate themselves with 'powerful' [via power imbalance], successful, individuals who can directly or indirectly help them obtain their own goals".

(p. 36) [as opposed to 'PURE BULLIES' {not bullied themselves} "...how well does this fit with individuals who are both BULLIES & VICTIMS?
... they are trying to IMITATE [what is perceived as] SUCCESSFUL BEHAVIOUR but are not capable of doing so themselves (..impulsively choosing poor targets).
Second - their BEHAVIOR may not be [essentially] bullying at all... a form of DISPLACED AGGRESSION against weaker [weakened by power imbalance] individuals instead of their tormentors".

(p. 36) "This would, potentially, be GOAL-ORIENTATED (relieving frustration) but it might not be ADAPTIVE or ... DEFENSIVE ... [potentially] reducing the levels of bullying they would otherwise receive".


Does any of this sound familiar?


Cole the Sociologist.

Still hunting the bullies.


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