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İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol.12, no.2, pp.23-43, 2011 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the frequency of occurrence of being a victim, bully, bullyvictim and non among secondary school students and examine the possibility of reliably discriminating
between bullies, victims, bully/victims and non-bully/non-victims, based on emotional and cognitive empathy.
A total of 340 Turkish middle school students participated in this study. They were attending 6th, 7th and 8th
grades in İzmir and Malatya. The KA-SI Empathic Tendency Scale and the Peer Bullying Scale were used
data regarding sample. In the analysis of data, descriptive statistics and discriminant function analysis were
used. The results showed that a substantial number of children were identified as “victim” (%26.9), as
“bully-victims” (%60.8), as “bullies” (3.7%) and as “non bully/non victim” (8.6%). The most common form
of bullying was verbal bullying (33.6%), followed by physcial bullying (29.3%). Sexual bullying was the least
common form of bullying (14.8%). Results of a discriminant function analysis demonstrated that cognitive
empathy and emotional empathy formed a linear separation between the comparison group, the victim group,
the bully group, and the bully/victim group and non bully/non victim group.
Keywords: Bullying, empathic tendency, secondary school students, discriminant analysis