Bullying and Weapon Carrying

Geel, Mitch van; Vedder, Paul; Tanilon, Jenny

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.213

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“…Prior research indicates that adolescents who carry a weapon are likely to be male [4,12] and have a history of delinquent acts, such as peer misbehaviour, drug use and fighting [13][14][15]. Other risk factors include a lack of strong parental supervision and guardianship [12], lower levels of family attachment [16,17], previous victimization [18][19][20], fear [21], living in unsafe surroundings and witnessing violence [22,23] and poor academic performance [22]. Even though previous studies have established risk factors for weapon carrying among youths, many of the studies have only included US samples.…”

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Weapon carrying and psychopathic-like features in a population-based sample of Finnish adolescents

Saukkonen

Laajasalo

Jokela

et al. 2015

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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We investigated the prevalence of juvenile weapon carrying and psychosocial and personality-related risk factors for carrying different types of weapons in a nationally representative, population-based sample of Finnish adolescents. Specifically, we aimed to investigate psychopathic-like personality features as a risk factor for weapon carrying. The participants were 15-16-year-old adolescents from the Finnish self-report delinquency study (n = 4855). Four different groups were formed based on self-reported weapon carrying: no weapon carrying, carrying knife, gun or other weapon. The associations between psychosocial factors, psychopathic-like features and weapon carrying were examined with multinomial logistic regression analysis. 9% of the participants had carried a weapon in the past 12 months. Adolescents with a history of delinquency, victimization and antisocial friends were more likely to carry weapons in general; however, delinquency and victimization were most strongly related to gun carrying, while perceived peer delinquency (antisocial friends) was most strongly related to carrying a knife. Better academic performance was associated with a reduced likelihood of carrying a gun and knife, while feeling secure correlated with a reduced likelihood of gun carrying only. Psychopathic-like features were related to a higher likelihood of weapon carrying, even after adjusting for other risk factors. The findings of the study suggest that adolescents carrying a weapon have a large cluster of problems in their lives, which may vary based on the type of weapon carried. Furthermore, psychopathic-like features strongly relate to a higher risk of carrying a weapon.

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Weapon carrying and psychopathic-like features in a population-based sample of Finnish adolescents

Saukkonen

Laajasalo

Jokela

et al. 2015

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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“…Such victimization is related to psychosomatic symptoms (Gini & Pozzoli, 2013), internalizing and externalizing problems (Reijntjes et al, 2011;Reijntjes, Kamphuis, Prinzie, & Telch, 2010), sleeping problems (Van Geel, Goemans, & Vedder, 2016), and suicidality (Holt et al, 2015). Negative effects are not restricted to the victims of bullying; perpetrators have been found to smoke more and drink more alcohol (Nansel et al, 2001), and to be more likely to carry a weapon than uninvolved children (Van Geel, Vedder, & Tanilon, 2014a). Cyberbullying, a form of bullying wherein the perpetrator uses digital means such as internet or mobile telephones, has more recently attracted the attention of researchers.…”

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Which personality traits are related to traditional bullying and cyberbullying? A study with the Big Five, Dark Triad and sadism

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Goemans

Toprak

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Personality and Individual Differences

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Studies have shown that both Big Five and Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) personality traits are related to traditional bullying and cyberbullying behaviors in adolescents as well as in adults. Increasingly, scholars call for sadism as an addition to the Dark Triad in the study of antisocial and delinquent behaviors. In the current study we analyze whether the Big Five, Dark Triad and sadism predict traditional bullying and cyberbullying. The sample consisted of 1,568 participants (61.9 % female), ranging in age from 16 to 21 years. Using hierarchical linear regression analyses, controlling for age and gender, it was found that agreeableness, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism were significantly related to traditional bullying, and agreeableness and sadism were related to cyberbullying. Taken together, the results more firmly establish that sadism could be a predictor of antisocial behaviors, by establishing its relations with bullying and cyberbullying.

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“…8,9 Previously, researchers have documented that bullying victimization is associated with greater odds of weapon carrying, [9][10][11] and in a robust meta-analysis of 22 studies, researchers recently found that VoBs were approximately twice as likely to carry weapons compared with uninvolved peers. 12 Although it has been well established that VoBs are more likely to carry weapons, not all victims carry weapons to school. Our purpose with this study is to identify factors that predict which VoBs are more likely to carry weapons compared with other victims.…”

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Weapon Carrying Among Victims of Bullying

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Bullying and Weapon Carrying

Abstract: Involvement in bullying as a victim, bully, or bully-victim is related to weapon carrying.

Cited by 69 publications

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Weapon carrying and psychopathic-like features in a population-based sample of Finnish adolescents

Weapon carrying and psychopathic-like features in a population-based sample of Finnish adolescents

Which personality traits are related to traditional bullying and cyberbullying? A study with the Big Five, Dark Triad and sadism

Weapon Carrying Among Victims of Bullying

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