Angst en narcisme bij daders, slachtoffers en niet-betrokkenen

Abstract

Bullying still is a world-wide problem that schools have to deal with and has negative consequences for not only victims, but also bullies and outsiders. Little is known about the relationship between narcissism and bullying/victimisation. Also, the results concerning the relationship between anxiety and bullying/victimisation are contradictory. Which is why it is important to examine whether certain characteristics such as anxiety and narcissism are more likely to exist within a specific bullying role. Therefore, 264 elementary school children filled in a questionnaire and took part in an interview. The questionnaire asked about the characteristics, whereas the interview examined the bullying roles through peer nominations. The roles included in this study were: bullies, victims and outsiders. Like our hypothesis suggested, it appeared that bullies have the tendency to be more narcissistic than victims. As expected, victims experienced more anxiousness than bullies. There were no differences with outsiders. This study contributes to the yet existing knowledge about bullying by examining the differences between bullying roles in regards to anxiousness and narcissism, which has rarely ever been done before. The outcomes of this study indicate that bullying-interventions should focus on changing specific characteristics (anxiety and narcissism) which might cause a change in their (bullying) behaviour.