ATTITUDE OF UPPER-FORMERS TO THE BULLYING AND ITS PARTICIPANTS


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The paper covers the consideration of the important social-psychological problem – the bullying, a new concept for Russian psychology but not a new phenomenon for our society. The concept of “bullying” is mostly used to analyze the cases of manhunt and violence within the educational environment. The authors give the definition of bullying from the point of view of American Psychological Association, present one of the classifications of bullying and describe the structure of this phenomenon from the point of view of dispositional approach. This structure includes the participants of bullying: aggressors, victims (passive and aggressive), witnesses (bystanders) that can, in their turn, support an aggressor actively or passively, and otherwise sympathize with a victim and defend it.  

The paper presents the results of the empirical study carried out in 2015–2016 in the schools of Pskov in 5–10 grades based on the selection of more than 400 people. The authors consider the results obtained on the selection of tenth-graders showing the attitude of upper-formers to the expressions of violence at school, its participants: aggressors, victims, bystanders, and the teacher and his/her actions on the bullying prevention as well. For the empirical study, the incomplete-sentence method developed by L.I. Maksimenkova was applied. The analysis of the results obtained allowed making the conclusions on the type of the upper-formers’ attitude to the problem of bullying, revealing some contradictory in the attitude to aggressors, victims and bystanders. The data obtained displays the young people’s ambiguous estimation of the teacher’s actions in the bullying situations. The analysis of the results is presented in the gender-based aspect.

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Diana Yaroslavovna Gribanova

Pskov State University, Pskov

Author for correspondence.
Email: dianab81@mail.ru

PhD (Psychology), assistant professor of Chair of psychology

Russian Federation

Rumiya Rashidovna Kalinina

Pskov State University, Pskov

Email: rumia-08@mail.ru

PhD (Psychology), assistant professor of Chair of psychology

Russian Federation

Larisa Igorevna Maksimenkova

Pskov State University, Pskov

Email: lora_max@mail.ru

PhD (Psychology), assistant professor of Chair of psychology

Russian Federation

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