Understanding the psychology of bullying: Moving toward a social-ecological diathesis–stress model.

With growing recognition that bullying is a complex phenomenon, influenced by multiple factors, research findings to date have been understood within a social-ecological framework. Consistent with this model, we review research on the known correlates and contributing factors in bullying/victimization within the individual, family, peer group, school and community. Recognizing the fluid and dynamic nature of involvement in bullying, we then expand on this model and consider research on the consequences of bullying involvement, as either victim or bully or both, and propose a social-ecological, diathesis-stress model for understanding the bullying dynamic and its impact. Specifically, we frame involvement in…

• UO
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• UO
  University of British Columbia
• CO
  College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
• SS
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada