Victim group children score higher than bullies on the SDQ prosocial behavior subscale¶

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q2 i3 On the parent-reported SDQ, victims presented higher prosocial behavior scores than bullies (r = −0.59), but did not differ significantly from controls or bully-victims at the corrected alpha. → Medeiros W 2016

Evidence¶

Medeiros W 2016¶

Medeiros W, Torro-Alves N, Malloy-Diniz LF and Minervino CM (2016) Executive Functions in Children Who Experience Bullying Situations. Front. Psychol. 7:1197. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01197

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Among the SDQ subscales, only prosocial behavior differentiated the groups (χ2 = 11.347, p = 0.01); "victims presented higher scores than bullies" with r = −0.59, while victims versus controls (p = 0.089) and versus bully-victims (p = 0.013) did not reach the corrected threshold of 0.0083.

"Mann–Whitney tests showed that victims presented higher scores than bullies ( U= 33.00, z=− 3.217, p= 0.001, r=− 0.59), but not in comparison to the control group (U= 73.5, z=− 1.703; p= 0.089, r=− 0.31)"

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