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The Roles of Authoritarian Personality and Popularity in School Bullying

이종원 1 Taekyun Hur 1 Sangyeon Yoon 2 김혜진 1

1고려대학교
2성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

The hierarchy in classrooms and the participant roles in bullying are suggested to be the importantpredictors of school bullying. With the hypothesis that student's authoritarian personality would have animportant bearing in bullying, which occurs from the formation of in-class ranks and the differentiation ofparticipant roles, the current study investigated the effects of authoritarian personality on differentparticipant roles in bullying situations (bully, follower, victim, outsider, and defender) with regard toin-class popularity. 559 first-grade co-ed middle school students in Seoul and Gyeonggi Provinceparticipated. Bullying, following, and ignoring were positively correlated to each other, and both bullyingand following showed positive correlations to being-victimized. Also, bullying, following, ignoring, andbeing-victimized were positively correlated with authoritarian personality while ignoring andbeing-victimized were negatively correlated with popularity. In regression analyses, authoritarian personalitywas found to be an important factor in predicting pro-bullying behaviors such as bullying and following,showing that authoritarian students took the leading roles in bullying. Ignoring and being-victimizedoccurred more with high authoritarian personality and low popularity. However, neither of them weresuitable for explaining defending behavior. Indicating the authoritarian aspect of school bullying, theresults showed the effects of authoritarian personality and popularity in accordance with each of theparticipant roles in school bullying.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.