@article{ref1,
title="Bully perpetration and self-esteem: examining the relation over time",
journal="Behavioral disorders",
year="2017",
author="Rose, Chad Allen and Slaten, Christopher D. and Preast, June L.",
volume="42",
number="4",
pages="159-169",
abstract="School-aged youth face a number of academic and behavioral challenges within the educational environment, including bullying involvement. Unfortunately, bullying has been linked to a number of detrimental psychosocial outcomes. Scholars have attempted to establish predictive profiles for youth involved in bullying. These profiles include bully perpetrators, where it has been argued that self-esteem is predictive of bullying behaviors. To address this association, the current study examined the relation between self-esteem and bully perpetration among 971 middle school youth through a longitudinal structural equation model. A three-step confirmatory factor analytic procedure determined that bully perpetration and self-esteem were metrically invariant and stable over time. The structural model suggested that bully perpetration at Time 1 predicted bully perpetration at Time 2, and self-esteem at Time 1 predicted self-esteem at Time 2. However, self-esteem at Time 1 did not predict bully perpetration at Time 2, and bully perpetration at Time 1 did not predict self-esteem at Time 2. These results suggest that students who engage in bully perpetration do not have higher or lower levels of self-esteem when compared with their peers who do not engage in bullying. Future research should continue to examine predictive factors associated with bully perpetration.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0198-7429",
doi="10.1177/0198742917715733",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0198742917715733"
}