Department of Developmental Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Sch Psychol. 2011 Jun;49(3):339-59. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2011.03.003. Epub 2011 Apr 16.
To examine whether bullying is strategic behavior aimed at obtaining or maintaining social dominance, 1129 9- to 12-year-old Dutch children were classified in terms of their role in bullying and in terms of their use of dominance oriented coercive and prosocial social strategies. Multi-informant measures of participants' acquired and desired social dominance were also included. Unlike non-bullying children, children contributing to bullying often were bistrategics in that they used both coercive and prosocial strategies and they also were socially dominant. Ringleader bullies also expressed a higher desire to be dominant. Among non-bullying children, those who tended to help victims were relatively socially dominant but victims and outsiders were not. Generally, the data supported the claim that bullying is dominance-oriented strategic behavior, which suggests that intervention strategies are more likely to be successful when they take the functional aspects of bullying behavior into account.
为了考察欺凌是否是一种旨在获得或维持社会支配地位的策略行为，研究人员对 1129 名 9 至 12 岁的荷兰儿童进行了分类，分类依据是他们在欺凌行为中的角色以及他们使用的以支配为导向的强制性和亲社会的社会策略。参与者获得的和期望的社会支配地位的多信息源测量也包括在内。与非欺凌儿童不同，经常参与欺凌行为的儿童往往是双策略者，因为他们既使用强制性策略，也使用亲社会策略，而且他们也具有社会支配地位。欺凌行为的头目也表现出更高的支配欲望。在非欺凌儿童中，那些倾向于帮助受害者的儿童相对具有社会支配地位，但受害者和局外人则没有。总的来说，数据支持了欺凌行为是一种以支配为导向的策略行为的说法，这表明干预策略更有可能成功，当它们考虑到欺凌行为的功能方面时。
