Identifying Bully-Defenders and Bully-Victims: Social Status Trajectories Across Middle School Among Chinese Adolescents.

IF 4.5 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Journal of Youth and Adolescence Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-09-17 DOI:10.1007/s10964-026-02408-8

Ning Xu, Shengcheng Song, Ruonan Guo, Caina Li, Ping Ren

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Abstract

Longitudinal evidence on the association between bullying perpetration and social status remains inconsistent, which may partly stem from insufficient attention to heterogeneity among bullying perpetrators. Drawing on resource control theory, this three-year, six-wave study extended the bistrategic concept to the bullying context by identifying subtypes based on peer-nominated bullying, defending, and victimization and examining their developmental trajectories of social status (popularity and likability). The sample comprised 2,326 Chinese adolescents (97.7% Han Chinese; 51.6% boys; M_age = 12.37 at Wave 1). Latent profile analysis revealed two distinct subgroups of bullies: bully-defenders (5.68%) and bully-victims (23.04%), along with two subgroups of nonbullies. Latent growth curve analysis revealed a compensatory pattern in social-status development across middle school: bully-defenders had higher initial popularity but declined linearly, whereas bully-victims had the lowest initial social status but increased nonlinearly. These findings suggest that defending behavior and victimization experiences may help distinguish bullying perpetrator subtypes and inform subtype-specific interventions.

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识别欺凌维护者和欺凌受害者：中国中学生社会地位轨迹。

关于欺凌行为与社会地位之间关系的纵向证据仍然不一致，这可能部分源于对欺凌行为实施者之间异质性的关注不足。利用资源控制理论，这项为期三年的六波研究将双策略概念扩展到欺凌情境中，通过识别基于同伴提名的欺凌、捍卫和受害的亚型，并检查他们的社会地位（受欢迎程度和受欢迎程度）的发展轨迹。样本包括2,326名中国青少年（97.7%汉族；51.6%男孩；Mage = 12.37在波1）。潜在性分析显示霸凌者有两个不同的亚组：霸凌捍卫者（5.68%）和霸凌受害者（23.04%），以及两个非霸凌者亚组。潜在增长曲线分析显示，欺凌维护者的初始受欢迎程度较高，但呈线性下降，而欺凌受害者的初始社会地位最低，但呈非线性上升。这些发现表明，保护行为和受害经历可能有助于区分欺凌施暴者亚型，并为针对亚型的干预提供信息。

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Journal of Youth and Adolescence PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.20

自引率

6.10%

发文量

155

期刊介绍： Journal of Youth and Adolescence provides a single, high-level medium of communication for psychologists, psychiatrists, biologists, criminologists, educators, and researchers in many other allied disciplines who address the subject of youth and adolescence. The journal publishes quantitative analyses, theoretical papers, and comprehensive review articles. The journal especially welcomes empirically rigorous papers that take policy implications seriously. Research need not have been designed to address policy needs, but manuscripts must address implications for the manner society formally (e.g., through laws, policies or regulations) or informally (e.g., through parents, peers, and social institutions) responds to the period of youth and adolescence.