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Session

Room: Mastrafjorden

Symposium 3

13 Jun 2025, 09:15

Stavanger Forum

229. The role of social and contextual factors in youth’s involvement in aggression, bullying, and bystanding

Elizabeth Al-Jbouri (Brock University), Naomi Andrews (Brock University), Tessa Lansu (Radboud University Nijmegen), Claire Garandeau (University of Turku), Wendy Craig (Queens University)

13/06/2025, 09:15

Experiences of bullying in the school context

Symposium

Bullying and aggression is inherently social, involving – at minimum – a perpetrator and target, but often involving other peers (e.g., Huitsing & Veenstra, 2012). Given inherent social complexities, these four studies explore a variety of social and contextual factors that may play a critical role in youth’s involvement in aggressive/bullying behaviors.

Study 1 assesses aggressive...