TY - JOUR
T1 - Thinking patterns, victimisation and bullying among adolescents in a South Australian metropolitan secondary school
AU - Owens, Larry
AU - Skrzypiec, Grace
AU - Wadham, Ben
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Responding to staff concerns about anti-social behaviour among students (n = 311, 50.5% boys, age range 13-16 years) at a low socio-economic Adelaide metropolitan school, we investigated victimisation and bullying and associated patterns of thinking. Two instruments were administered: the How I Think Questionnaire, which measures self-serving cognitive distortions; and the Bullying Experiences Questionnaire, which requires students to rate victimisation and bullying. The study revealed that: levels of distorted thinking were high; the most frequent forms of victimisation and bullying were verbal, indirect and physical; there were low levels of more extreme forms of victimisation and bullying; and there were higher levels of cognitive distortions among bullies and bully-victims. The research confirms the role of distorted thinking in the enactment of anti-social and bullying behaviours and provides a contemporary update of the types of victimisation/bullying in an Australian secondary school in 2011. Implications for interventions using social-cognitive approaches are addressed.
AB - Responding to staff concerns about anti-social behaviour among students (n = 311, 50.5% boys, age range 13-16 years) at a low socio-economic Adelaide metropolitan school, we investigated victimisation and bullying and associated patterns of thinking. Two instruments were administered: the How I Think Questionnaire, which measures self-serving cognitive distortions; and the Bullying Experiences Questionnaire, which requires students to rate victimisation and bullying. The study revealed that: levels of distorted thinking were high; the most frequent forms of victimisation and bullying were verbal, indirect and physical; there were low levels of more extreme forms of victimisation and bullying; and there were higher levels of cognitive distortions among bullies and bully-victims. The research confirms the role of distorted thinking in the enactment of anti-social and bullying behaviours and provides a contemporary update of the types of victimisation/bullying in an Australian secondary school in 2011. Implications for interventions using social-cognitive approaches are addressed.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Anti-social behaviour
KW - Bullying
KW - Cognitive distortions
KW - Social-cognitive interventions
KW - Victimisation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84900797457&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02673843.2012.719828
DO - 10.1080/02673843.2012.719828
M3 - Article
SN - 0267-3843
VL - 19
SP - 190
EP - 202
JO - International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
JF - International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
IS - 2
ER -