Resilience, Bullying, and Mental Health: Factors Associated With Improved Outcomes

Abstract

Resilience is associated with bouncing back from adversity, and the term currently enjoys significant popular appeal. However, understanding of resilience is often superficial. The current paper examined 105 primary and high school students' experiences of resilience and bullying, and considered resilience as a hierarchical factorial model. The study found that higher levels of resilience subfactors were a protective factor regarding depression and anxiety; that individuals with poorer resilience were more likely to engage in bullying behaviors; that individuals with poorer levels of resilience were more likely to be victims of bullying; and, that gender did not appear to be a major variable regarding resilience and bullying. These findings suggest that resilience interventions that focus on improving specific resilience elements including optimism, trust, tolerance, sensitivity, and impairment may be more efficacious than interventions focused on other resilience elements.

Teaching Styles in Physical Education: A New Approach to Predicting Resilience and Bullying

“…The work performed by Navarro, et al [25] with adolescent students found that resilience had a moderating effect on victimization by cyberbullying, such that it was shown to be a "protector" against victimization, in line with the results of another study that analyzed the predictive power of resilience on cyberbullying [26] in 377 Turkish students aged 15 to 19, in which a simple regression analysis revealed that resilience negatively predicted cyberbullying perpetration and cybervictimization. The results of Hinduja and Patchin [16], in another work performed with American students aged 12 to 17, indicated resilience as a powerful protective factor, both to prevent experiences of intimidation and to mitigate their effect, in line with the claims of other authors [8] who already suggested the possible protective nature of resilience in such situations, or as in the work of Moore and Woodcock [27], in which students with poorer resilience were more prone to engage in bullying behaviors as well as to become victims. Another study in Israel [28] analyzed the impact of cultural settings and individual protective attributes on peer bullying and victimization in school.…”

“…(2) The CS will be positively related to and will positively predict bullying behaviors as in a study with Estonian students between 12 and 16 years [58]. 3Resilience will be negatively related to and will negatively predict victimization as in previous studies on traditional bullying [24,25,27,28] and cyberbullying [26].…”

Untitled

“…However, control group exhibited decreases for emotional and total self-efficacy and this suggests that intervention had a greater effect on self-efficacy outcomes. Since the victims of bullying report lower self-efficacy than non-victims (Moore & Woodcock, 2017b), the result that total self-efficacy improved for the intervention group and decreased for the control group suggests that the intervention could improve participants' abilities to cope with bullying (Ludwig & Pittman, 1999).…”

Responses to bullying among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Support needs and self‐determination

“…While self‐determination skills are not often explicitly discussed within the bullying literature, consideration of the component skills of self‐determination demonstrates how a self‐determined response could lead to resilience among victims. Resilience is defined as “the attainment of positive outcomes, adaptation or developmental milestones in spite of significant adversity, risk or stress” (Moore & Woodcock, , p. 689). The literature on typically developing individuals indicates that resilience may serve as a protective factor against the emotional impact of peer victimization.…”