One of the problems in education is the high cases of bullying. Bullying in the school environment is the result of various interacting factors,
therefore bullying is a complex socio-cultural phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the results of previous studies in the psychology
field, which are related to bullying through a literature review study approach. Literature review searches were conducted on electronic journal articles,
and electronic books from ScienceDirect, Taylor & Francis Online, Sage Journal, Emerald Insight, Wiley Online Library, Springer Link, ERIC Institute of
Education Sciences, APA PsycNet with the keywords bullying. The searching results obtained 73 electronic journals from 2000-2017 and 26 electronic
books from 1993-2017. The reference journals and books are written in English. Therefore, based on these criteria, finally selected 23 studies based on
keywords, characteristics of research subjects, and are primary studies. The writing results illustrate that the phenomenon of bullying involves the role of
the perpetrators, victims, and the environment that interacts with each other. Male groups tend to be more directly involved in bullying behavior than
women. The conclusion of this paper is that bullying behavior is influenced by low self-control, rejection motives, and an environment that supports the
causes of bullying behavior
