Abstract
This research investigated the relationship between children’s bullying problem and their personality characteristics. 811 children sampled randomly from the fourth, fifth and sixth graders in primary school, with almost equal number of boys and girls in each grade, were administered by Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (junior version), selected items of Revised Olweus Children’s Bullying Questionnaire embedded in EPQ and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI). The results were as follows. (1) Among primary schoolchildren significant positive correlations were found between the frequencies of bullying others and being bullied in school and on the way to and from school this term and neuroticism, and significant or extremely significant negative correlations existed between the frequencies and extroversion and self-esteem. On the other hand, there were also significant positive correlation between the frequency of bullying others and pychoticism, while the frequency of being bullied wasn't significantly correlated with psychoticism. (2) According to Logistic Regression Analysis through recoding the frequency of bullying others or being bullied into dichotomy variable, both psychoticism and gender variable can significantly predict the probability of children’s bullying others, at the same time grade, neuroticism, self-esteem and psychoticism can significantly predict the probability of children’s being bullied.
| Keywords: | primary schoolchildren; bullying; personality |
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