Publication Cover
Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
Volume 38, 2018 - Issue 9
2,728
Views
67
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Conflictual student–teacher relationship, emotional and behavioral problems, prosocial behavior, and their associations with bullies, victims, and bullies/victims

ORCID Icon, , , ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 1201-1217 | Received 30 Aug 2017, Accepted 23 May 2018, Published online: 24 Jul 2018

References

  • Allison, P. D. (2002). Missing data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Analitis, F., Velderman, M. K., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Detmar, S., Erhart, M., Herdman, M., … Rajmil, L. (2009). Being bullied: Associated factors in children and adolescents 8 to 18 years old in 11 European countries. Pediatrics, 123, 569–577. doi:10.1542/peds.2008-0323
  • Arseneault, L., Bowes, L., & Shakoor, S. (2010). Bullying victimization in youths and mental health problems: ‘Much ado about nothing?’ Psychological Medicine, 40, 717–729. doi:10.1017/S0033291709991383
  • Baker, J. A. (2006). Contributions of teacher–child relationships to positive school adjustment during elementary school. Journal of School Psychology, 44, 211–229. doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2006.02.002
  • Caravita, S., Di Blasio, P., & Salmivalli, C. (2009). Unique and interactive effects of empathy and social status on involvement in bullying. Social Development, 18(1), 140–163. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00465.x
  • Copeland, W. E., Wolke, D., Angold, A., & Costello, E. J. (2013). Adult psychiatric outcomes of bullying and being bullied by peers in childhood and adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry, 70, 419–426.
  • Cook, C. R., Williams, K. R., Guerra, N. G., Kim, T. E., & Sadek, S. (2010). Predictors of bullying and victimization in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic investigation. School Psychology Quarterly, 25, 65–83. doi:10.1037/a0020149
  • Dijkstra, J. K., Lindenberg, S., & Veenstra, R. (2008). Beyond the class norm: Bullying behavior of popular adolescents and its relation to peer acceptance and rejection. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 1289. doi:10.1007/s10802-008-9251-7
  • Duffy, A. L., Penn, S., Nesdale, D., & Zimmer‐Gembeck, M. J. (2017). Popularity: Does it magnify associations between popularity prioritization and the bullying and defending behavior of early adolescent boys and girls? Social Development, 26, 263–277. doi:10.1111/sode.12206
  • Elledge, L. C., Elledge, A. R., Newgent, R. A., & Cavell, T. A. (2016). Social risk and peer victimization in elementary school children: The protective role of teacher-student relationships. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 691–703. doi:10.1007/s10802-015-0074-z
  • Engqvist, L. (2005). The mistreatment of covariate interaction terms in linear model analyses of behavioural and evolutionary ecology studies. Animal Behaviour, 70, 967–971. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.01.016
  • Farmer, T. W., McAuliffe Lines, M., & Hamm, J. V. (2011). Revealing the invisible hand: The role of teachers in children’s peer experiences. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 32, 247–256. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2011.04.006.02940
  • Fraire, M., Longobardi, C., Prino, L. E., Sclavo, E., & Settanni, M. (2013). Examining the student-teacher relationship scale in the Italian context: A factorial validity study. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 11, 649–664. doi:10.14204/ejrep.31.13068
  • Georgiou, S. N., & Stavrinides, P. (2008). Bullies, victims and bully-victims: Psychosocial profiles and attribution styles. School Psychology International, 29, 574–589. doi:10.1177/0143034308099202
  • Gini, G. (2008). Associations between bullying behaviour, psychosomatic complaints, emotional and behavioural problems. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 44, 492–497. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01155.x
  • Gini, G., & Pozzoli, T. (2009). Association between bullying and psychosomatic problems: A meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 123, 1059–1065. doi:10.1542/peds.2008-1215
  • Goodman, R., Meltzer, H., & Bailey, V. (1998). The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: A pilot study on the validity of the self-report version. European Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 7, 125–130. doi:10.1080/0954026021000046137
  • Gregory, A., Cornell, D., Fan, X., Sheras, P., Shih, T. H., & Huang, F. (2010). Authoritative school discipline: High school practices associated with lower bullying and victimization. Journal of Educational Psychology, 102, 483–496. doi:10.1037/a0018562
  • Hamre, B. K., & Pianta, R. C. (2001). Early teacher–child relationships and the trajectory of children's school outcomes through eighth grade. Child Development, 72, 625–638. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00301
  • Hamre, B. K., & Pianta, R. C. (2005). Can instructional and emotional support in the first‐grade classroom make a difference for children at risk of school failure? Child Development, 76, 949–967.
  • Henricsson, L., & Rydell, A.-M. (2004). Elementary school children with behavior problems: teacher-child relations and self-perception. A prospective study. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 50, 111–138. doi:10.1353/mpq.2004.0012
  • Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture’s consequences: comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Ivarsson, T., Broberg, A. G., Arvidsson, T., & Gillberg, C. (2005). Bullying in adolescence: Psychiatric problems in victims and bullies as measured by the Youth Self Report (YSR) and the Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS). Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 59, 365–373.
  • Jimerson, S. R., Swearer, S. M., & Espelage, D. L. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of bullying in schools: An international perspective. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Johnson, H. R., Thompson, M. J., Wilkinson, S., Walsh, L., Balding, J., & Wright, V. (2002). Vulnerability to bullying: Teacher-reported conduct and emotional problems, hyperactivity, peer relationship difficulties, and prosocial behaviour in primary school children. Educational Psychology, 22, 553–556. doi:10.1080/0144341022000023626
  • Jungert, T., Piroddi, B., & Thornberg, R. (2016). Early adolescents' motivations to defend victims in school bullying and their perceptions of student–teacher relationships: A self-determination theory approach. Journal of Adolescence, 53, 75–90. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.09.001
  • Juvonen, J., Graham, S., & Schuster, M. A. (2003). Bullying among young adolescents: The strong, the weak, and the troubled. Pediatrics, 112, 1231–1237.
  • Koomen, H. M., & Jellesma, F. C. (2015). Can closeness, conflict, and dependency be used to characterize students’ perceptions of the affective relationship with their teacher? Testing a new child measure in middle childhood. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 85, 479–497. doi:10.1111/bjep.12094
  • Kowalski, R. M., & Limber, S. P. (2013). Psychological, physical, and academic correlates of cyberbullying and traditional bullying. Journal of Adolescent Health, 53, S13–S20. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.09.018
  • Ladd, G. W., & Burgess, K. B. (1999). Charting the relationship trajectories of aggressive, withdrawn, and aggressive/withdrawn children during early grade school. Child Development, 70, 910–929. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00066
  • Landstedt, E., & Persson, S. (2014). Bullying, cyberbullying, and mental health in young people. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 42, 393–399. doi:10.1177/1403494814525004
  • Liljeberg, J. F., Eklund, J. M., Fritz, M. V., & af Klinteberg, B. (2011). Poor school bonding and delinquency over time: Bidirectional effects and sex differences. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.03.008
  • Longobardi, C., Gastaldi, F. G. M., Prino, L. E., Pasta, T., & Settanni, M. (2016). Examining student-teacher relationship from students’ point of view: Italian adaptation and validation of the young children’s appraisal of teacher support questionnaire. The Open Psychology Journal, 9, 176–187. doi:10.2174/1874350101609010176
  • Longobardi, C., Prino, L. E., Marengo, D., & Settanni, M. (2016). Student-teacher relationships as a protective factor. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1988. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01988
  • Longobardi, C., Prino, L. E., Fabris, M. A., & Settanni, M. (2017). Violence in school: An investigation of physical, psychological, and sexual victimization reported by Italian adolescents. Journal of School Violence. doi:10.1080/15388220.2017.1387128
  • Longobardi, C., Iotti, N. O., Jungert, T., & Settanni, M. (2018). Student-teacher relationships and bullying: The role of student social status. Journal of Adolescence, 63, 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.12.001
  • Marzocchi, G. M., Capron, C., Di Pietro, M., Tauleria, E. D., Duyme, M., Frigerio, A., … Thérond, C. (2004). The use of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (sdq) in southern European countries. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry [supplement], 13, ii40–ii46. doi:10.1007/s00787-004-2007-1
  • Meehan, B. T., Hughes, J. N., & Cavell, T. A. (2003). Teacher–student relationships as compensatory resources for aggressive children. Child Development, 74, 1145–1157.
  • Murray-Harvey, R., & Slee, P. T. (2010). School and home relationships and their impact on school bullying. School Psychology International, 31, 271–295. doi:10.1177/0143034310366206
  • O'Brennan, L. M., Bradshaw, C. P., & Sawyer, A. L. (2009). Examining developmental differences in the social-emotional problems among frequent bullies, victims, and bully/victims. Psychology in the Schools, 46, 100–115. doi:10.1002/pits.20357
  • O’Connor, E. E., Dearing, E., & Collins, B. A. (2011). Teacher-child relationship and behavior problem trajectories in elementary school. American Educational Research Journal, 48, 120–162.
  • Olweus, D. (1993). Bullying at school: what we know and what we can do. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Olweus, D. (1996). The Revised Olweus bully/victim questionnaire. Bergen, Norway: Research Center for Health Promotion, University of Bergen.
  • Olweus, D., & Limber, S. P. (2010). Bullying in school: Evaluation and dissemination of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80, 124–134. doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01015.x
  • Pianta, R. C., Steinberg, M. S., & Rollins, K. B. (1995). The first two years of school: Teacher-child relationships and deflections in children's classroom adjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 7, 295–312. doi:10.1017/S0954579400006519
  • Quaglia, R., Gastaldi, F. G. M., Prino, L. E., Pasta, T., & Longobardi, C. (2013). The pupil–teacher relationship and gender differences in primary school. Open Psychology Journal, 6, 69–75. doi:10.2174/1874350101306010069
  • Reijntjes, A., Kamphuis, J. H., Prinzie, P., & Telch, M. J. (2010). Peer victimization and internalizing problems in children: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34, 244–252. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.07.009
  • Schneider, S. K., O'donnell, L., Stueve, A., & Coulter, R. W. (2012). Cyberbullying, school bullying, and psychological distress: A regional census of high school students. American Journal of Public Health, 102(1), 171–177. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300308
  • Sette, S., Spinrad, T. L., & Baumgartner, E. (2013). Links among Italian preschoolers’ socioemotional competence, teacher-child relationship quality, and peer acceptance. Early Education and Development, 24, 851–864. doi:10.1080/10409289.2013.744684
  • Silberg, J. L., Copeland, W., Linker, J., Moore, A. A., Roberson-Nay, R., & York, T. P. (2016). Psychiatric outcomes of bullying victimization: A study of discordant monozygotic twins. Psychological Medicine, 46, 1875–1883. doi:10.1017/S0033291716000362
  • Skrzypiec, G., Slee, P. T., Askell-Williams, H., & Lawson, M. J. (2012). Associations between types of involvement in bullying, friendships and mental health status. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 17, 259–272.
  • Smith, P. K., Talamelli, L., Cowie, H., Naylor, P., & Chauhan, P. (2004). Profiles of non‐victims, escaped victims, continuing victims and new victims of school bullying. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 565–581. doi:10.1348/0007099042376427
  • Solberg, M. E., & Olweus, D. (2003). Prevalence estimation of school bullying with the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire. Aggressive Behavior, 29, 239–268. doi:10.1002/ab.10047
  • Sutton, J., Smith, P., & Swettenham, J. (1999). Bullying and ’theory of mind’: A critique of the ’social skills deficit’ view of anti-social behavior. Social Development, 8, 117–127. doi:10.1111/1467-9507.00083
  • Thornberg, R. (2015). The social dynamics of school bullying: The necessary dialogue between the blind men around the elephant and the possible meeting point at the social-ecological square. Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 3, 161–203.
  • Thornberg, R., & Jungert, T. (2013). Bystander behavior in bullying situations: Basic moral sensitivity, moral disengagement and defender self-efficacy. Journal of Adolescence, 36, 475–483. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.02.003
  • Thornberg, R., Wänström, L., & Pozzoli, T. (2017). Peer victimisation and its relation to class relational climate and class moral disengagement among school children. Educational Psychology, 37, 524–536. doi:10.1080/01443410.2016.1150423
  • Thunfors, P., & Cornell, D. (2008). The popularity of middle school bullies. Journal of School Violence, 7, 65–82. doi:10.1300/J202v07n01_05
  • Ttofi, M. M., Farrington, D. P., Lösel, F., & Loeber, R. (2011). The predictive efficiency of school bullying versus later offending: A systematic/meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 21, 80–89. doi:10.1002/cbm.808
  • Vieno, A., Lenzi, M., Gini, G., Pozzoli, T., Cavallo, F., & Santinello, M. (2015). Time trends in bullying behavior in Italy. Journal of School Health, 85, 441–445. doi:10.1111/josh.12269
  • Wang, C., Swearer, S. M., Lembeck, P., Collins, A., & Berry, B. (2015). Teachers matter: An examination of student-teacher relationships, attitudes toward bullying, and bullying behavior. Journal of Applied School Psychology, 31, 219–238. doi:10.1080/15377903.2015.1056923
  • Wang, J., Iannotti, R. J., & Nansel, T. R. (2009). School bullying among adolescents in the United States: Physical, verbal, relational, and cyber. Journal of Adolescent Health, 45, 368–375. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.03.021
  • Wolke, D., Woods, S., Bloomfield, L., & Karstadt, L. (2000). The association between direct and relational bullying and behaviour problems among primary school children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 989–1002.
  • Yoneyama, S., & Rigby, K. (2006). Bully/victim students and classroom climate. Youth Studies Australia, 25, 34–41.
  • Yoneyama, S., & Naito, A. (2003). Problems with the paradigm: The school as a factor in understanding bullying (with special reference to Japan). British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24, 315–330. doi:10.1080/01425690301894

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.