Article

Children's Peer Victimization and Bullying -Examining the Moderating Effect of Abuse by Parents and Teachers

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채진영

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pp. 71~86 / 2013 Vol.20 No.2

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of abuse by parents and teachers in terms of the relationship between children's peer victimization and bullying behavior. The subjects were 583 fourth- to six-grade children (366 boys and 217 girls) who participated in the Korean Survey on the Safety and Protection of Youth and Children in 2010. Data were analyzed through frequency, percentages, Cronbach's reliability coefficient, and Pearson's correlations using PASW 18.0. In addition, Ping(1996)'s two-step approach was adopted in order to analyze the moderating effect through AMOS 7.0. The major findings are as follows. First, children's bullying behavior revealed significantly positive correlations with both the peer victimized experience and abuse by parents or teachers. Second, the model proposed by this research, as revised, demonstrated the effectiveness of an analysis of the structural equation model, and illustrated the fact that the experience of abuse by parents or teachers had a moderating effect on the relationship between the peer victimized experience and bullying behavior. These findings suggest that the experience of abuse by parents or teacher increased the influence of children's peer victimization on their bullying behavior.

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