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Direct linkNivetha Prabaharan; Andrew V. Dane; Natalie Spadafora – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
This study investigated characteristics associated with two kinds of peer victimization--bullying victimization and adversarial victimization--distinguished by different balances of power between the perpetrator and victim. Specifically, we examined whether bullying victimization (victim has less power than perpetrator) would be experienced to a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Power Structure, Preadolescents
Andrews, Naomi C. Z.; McDowell, Hannah; Spadafora, Natalie; Dane, Andrew V. – School Psychology, 2022
In social groups, such as school-based peer networks, youth often vie for power and dominance over others. Different strategies may be used to gain power (i.e., coercive and/or cooperative strategies), and with varying levels of success. Using a social networks approach, we examined whether and how social network centrality and social network…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Early Adolescents, Power Structure, Peer Relationship
Download full textHughes, Elizabeth M.; Quiñones, Sandra – Middle Grades Review, 2018
Bullying has been recognized as a complex phenomenon with potential for serious negative outcomes. Activities that address complex social situations of bullying, such as reading and writing to a pen pal about fictional literature, provide space for students to think and share about personal issues that they encounter and how characters deal with…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Experience, Friendship
Strindberg, Joakim; Horton, Paul; Thornberg, Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2020
The aim of the study was to examine Swedish school pupils' perspectives on why some pupils engage in bullying, support bullying or avoid standing up for the one(s) being bullied, despite a shared understanding that bullying is wrong. Through the use of focus group interviews combined with two bullying vignettes, a total of 74 pupils from grades 5…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Victims
Forsberg, Camilla; Thornberg, Robert; Samuelsson, Marcus – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The aim with the present study was to investigate bystander actions in bullying situations as well as reasons behind these actions as they are articulated by Swedish students from fourth to seventh grade. Forty-three semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with students. Qualitative analysis of data was performed by methods from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Méndez, Tatiana; García, Andrea – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This article derives from a critical discourse analysis study that reports the characteristics of elementary school students' power and solidarity relations in English as a foreign language classroom in Bogotá, Colombia, while we were doing our teaching English as a foreign language practicum. The study was based on theories of power and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Empowerment, English (Second Language)
Gest, Scott D.; Rodkin, Philip C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2011
Teachers and students in 39 1st, 3rd and 5th grade classrooms participated in a study of teaching practices and classroom peer networks. Teachers reported on their attitudes towards aggression and withdrawal, provided rationales for their seating arrangements, and were observed on patterns of emotional and instructional support and classroom…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Social Status, Peer Relationship, Friendship
