The Influence of Emotional Reaction on Help Seeking by Victims of School Bullying
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Educational Psychology
- Vol. 26 (6), 813-826
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410600941946
Abstract
Research has begun to focus on how victims of school bullying cope, but there is still little understanding of why pupils will cope in one particular way and not another. This paper aimed to examine the effects of gender, stage of schooling, frequency of victimisation, and different emotions (anger, vengeance, self‐pity, indifference, and helplessness) upon the social support that children report using. Questionnaires were completed by 6,282 Maltese schoolchildren between 9 and 14 years of age. Analyses revealed that specific patterns of emotion and victimisation predict pupil reports of using certain sources of social support. Results are discussed in relation to possible intervention, future research needs, and implications for the theoretical framework used.Keywords
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