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KMID : 0904520130340010299
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Health and Medical Sociology
2013 Volume.34 No. 1 p.299 ~ p.334
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Gender-specific Bullying Dynamics among Korean Middle School Students - Hierarchical vs. Bilateral
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Lee Jin-A
Youm Yoo-Sik
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Abstract
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This study has two-fold research goals. First, it tries to identify effects of friends on bullying experiences among Korean middle school students. Two types of friend effects are examined: the number of close friends and the number of close friends who have bullying experiences. Second, it examines if bullying dynamics identified by the configuration of friend effects are different between boys and girls. For these purposes, we relied on the 2,656 sample of middle school students from the Korean Child-Youth Well-Being Index that collected a representative sample of Korean adolescents. Unlike common senses, bullying experiences somewhat evenly occur across the middle school adolescents. One of the most robust factors that are associated with bullying experiences is the number of friends who are victimized or perpetrating. In other words, while traditional individual-level characteristics are not enough to explain bullying experience, we can confirm strong homophily in the bullying dynamics: bullying adolescents tend to have bullies as friends and also victims tend to have victims as friends. However, the concrete bullying dynamics are quite different across gender. Bullying dynamics among boys reveals strong hierarchical system where bullying is a cause and result of status-seeking behaviors. Among girls, bullying behaviors seem to be much more bilateral between rather equivalent groups.
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KEYWORD
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Bullying, Gender, Friendship Network, Homophily, Korean Child-Youth Well-Being Index (KCWI)
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