Presentation focuses on hostile attributions bias and perceived self-efficacy of adolescent bullies, victims, bully-victims, and those uninvolved in bullying

Boyle, James

Hunter, Simon C.

Warden, David

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Boyle, James M.E.

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Hostile attributions bias and perceived self-efficacy of adolescent bullies, victims, bully-victims, and those uninvolved in bullying

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Strathprints Institutional RepositoryHunter, Simon C. and Boyle, James and Warden, David (2004) Hostile attributions bias andperceived self-efficacy of adolescent bullies, victims, bully-victims, and those uninvolved in bullying.In: BPS Scottish Branch Annual Conference, 2004-11-26 - 2004-11-28, Pitlochry, UK.Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde.Copyright c© and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authorsand/or other copyright owners. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for anyprofitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or study, educational, ornot-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to Strathprints administrator:mailto:strathprints@strath.ac.ukhttp://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/  Hunter, Simon C. and Boyle, James and Warden, David (2004) Hostile attributions bias and perceived self-efficacy of adolescent bullies, victims, bully-victims, and those uninvolved in bullying. In: BPS Scottish Branch Annual Conference, 26-28 November 2004, Pitlochry, UK.    http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/25737/       Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. 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Boyle & David WardenUniversity of StrathclydeBPS Scottish Branch Conference 2004Fisher’s Hotel, Pitlochry, 26-28 Novembersimon.hunter@strath.ac.uk• Clarification of the cognitive underpinnings of involvement in bullying should improve intervention and prevention work• Self-efficacy?? distinguish between efficacy for aggressive and non-aggressive behaviours?• Hostile attributions biases?? Regardless of hostile attribution bias, self-efficacy (as above) predicts use of aggression   or prosocial behaviour? However, hostile attribution biases may differentiate between bullies and bully-victimsBackground• Theoretical basis for differentiating intervention and/or prevention based on theory?Hypotheses1. Victims will have lower overall self-efficacy (i.e. for both aggressive and non-aggressive actions) compared to uninvolved pupils2. Bully-victims and bullies will have higher aggressive self-efficacy than victims and uninvolved pupils3. Bully-victims will have a higher hostile attribution bias than victims, bullies and uninvolved pupilsBackground• Participants were 520 pupils (49% male) aged 12 - 14 years attending mainstream Scottish schools. Three hundred and six pupils were in Secondary Two and 205 in Secondary Three.• Measures were completed in classroom settings:? victimisation? self-efficacy – vignette measure? hostile attribution bias – vignette measure(latter two measures based on Hubbard et al.’s 2001 measures)Method• Bullies: 5% overall (7% of boys, 4% of girls)• Bully-victims: 9% overall (9% of boys, 8% of girls)• Victims: 35% overall (33% of boys, 36% of girls)• Uninvolved: 51% overall (50% of boys, 52% of girls)• Aggressive and non-aggressive self-efficacy scores correlated (r = .44, p < 0.001)• Neither type of self-efficacy correlated with hostile attribution score• 3-way mixed-ANOVA: gender x bullying involvement (bully/ bully-victim/ victim/ uninvolved) x self- efficacy (aggressive/ non-aggressive)ResultsSelf-efficacy:• 3-way mixed-ANOVA: gender x bullying involvement (bully/ bully-victim/ victim/ uninvolved) x self- efficacy (aggressive/ non-aggressive):? no effect of gender.? main effect of self-efficacy: overall, pupils reported significantly higher non-aggressive than aggressive self-efficacy.? main effect of bullying involvement: victims reported significantly lower overall self-efficacy than uninvolved pupils.? no interactions.ResultsHostile Attribution Bias:• 2-way ANOVA: gender x bullying involvement (bully/ bully-victim/ victim/ uninvolved)? no main effects or interactions.Results• Victims reported significantly lower self-efficacy than uninvolved pupils (and were lower than all other groups at a trend level)? such perceptions are likely to contribute toward the maintenance of victimisation by encouraging less adaptive responses i.e. submissive and unassertive behaviours• Hostile attribution biases unrelated to status? perhaps bully victims are not simply provocative victims, and these two groups must be distinguished more clearlyDiscussion

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