COMPARISON OF THE STRUCTURES OF BULLYING PARTICIPANTS’ AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
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2026
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The aim of the study is to compare the structures of bullying participants’ behaviors in the school environment. The study involved students aged 10 to 16 who attended secondary schools in Kyiv (Ukraine), with a total number of n = 173. We created a diagram of bullying participants’ aggressive behaviors in the school environment. It was found that bullies significantly surpassed victims in four aggressiveness parameters (p ≤. 010; p < .001): “physical aggression”, “indirect aggression”, “irritation”, “pangs of conscience”, and on the integral aggressiveness scale. Victims significantly surpassed (p ≤. 050; p ≤. 010; p < .001) active bystanders in eight aggressiveness parameters and on two integral scales, passive bystanders – in three aggressiveness parameters and on the integral aggressiveness scales, and participants with no school-based bullying experience – in eight aggressiveness parameters and on two integral scales. It was substantiated that our comparative research is a confirmatory strategy with the elements of comparison that operationalize the most relevant dimensions characterizing the bullying phenomenon – aggressiveness parameters. It was summarized that bullying was considered a systemic model of the interrelated aggressive behaviors of all participants in this process. We obtained important scientific facts that should be learnt by the organizers of the educational activities in secondary education institutions to develop prevention and psycho-correction training courses on school bullying.
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Zavatska, N., Sakharova, K., Zavatskyi, V., Yaremchuk, N., Kozyra, P., Batasheva, N., Novatskyi, V., Popovych, I., (2026). Comparison of the Structures of Bullying Participants’ Aggressive Behaviors in the School Environment. Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 18(1), 187-200.
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sychology of violence, bully, victim, value orientations, physical aggression, indirect aggression.