Communication with Parents, Self-esteem and Shame and their Relationship to Aggression in Bully and Bully-Victim Groups
AUTHOR : 한세영
INFORMATION : page. 125~143 / 2010 Vol.17 No.1
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of aggression, communication with parents, self-esteem, and shame across bully and bully-victim groups, to analyze the difference between the correlations among aggression and other variables of bully and bully-victim group, and to investigate the effect of communication with parents, self-esteem, and shame on aggression in the bully and bully-victim groups. The subjects of this study were 359 children and early adolescents (187 boys, and 172 girls) from Daejeon city. The results of this research indicated that hostile aggression of bully-victims was higher than that of bullies. The self-esteem levels of bullies and the shame of bully-victims were higher than that of their counterparts. Bullies showed a stronger correlation between hostile aggression and closed communication with fathers, and bully-victims reported stronger correlations between hostile aggression and shame. Lastly, bullies’ hostile aggression was influenced significantly by closed-communication with fathers, whereas bully-victims’ hostile aggression were influenced significantly by shame and closed-communication with mothers.
Key words : Aggression, Bully, Bully-Victim, Communication with parents, Self-esteem, Shame