An approach to solve the bullying problem : perspectives from skills avoiding the bulling

Abstract

Morita & Kiyonaga (1986) proposed that there are four kinds of the role in a bullying situation (i.e. "a bully", "a bullied", "an audience" or "an onlooker"). Many researchers accepted this proposal and tried to find what factors determined the role in the bullying situation. But the determinant that discriminate the role could not find until now. The purpose of this study is to find the factor that influences the discrimination of the role in a bulling. Questionnaire method was used and 321 persons ranging from 8 to 48 years olds answered of this questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses showed that while people regarded "a bully", "a bullied", "an audience" or "an onlooker" as having some stereotyped causes, such stereotyped causes had only a few influences for discriminating the role in a bulling. Multiple regression analyses also showed that one of the candidates for discriminating the role in a bulling situation is the strategy difference people used in order to avoid being the victim of bulling (i.e. avoiding strategy). The numerical value of "Square of Multiple Regression Coefficient" was from two to nine times when avoiding strategies were introduced in the multiple regression analyses as the predictor variable. But the numerical value of "Square of Multiple Regression Coefficient" was not sufficient for explaining the discrimination of the role in a bullying even if the avoiding strategy was introduced in the multiple regression analyses. In addition to the avoiding strategy, the necessity and candidates of another new factors that can increase the coefficient of determination is discussed.