School bullying in hungarian primary schools

Abstract

The aim of this present study is to reveal the structure of attitude- and behavior patterns that occur in the course of school bullying, the occurrence rate of the bully, the victim, the intervener participant, the helper participant and the bystander behavior patterns among primary students, in particular view of age and gender differences.  Methods: In the school practice, Questionnaire on School Bullying, as a test generative result of our research group, was used to examine the attitude and behavior patterns in connection with school bullying. Results: In case of the primary school students (11-14 year old students), from the given reactions on school bullying the most frequent behavior pattern- without reference to genders -was helper participant. From the components of helper participant, reconciling interposition seemed to be the most commonly used behavior pattern.