Direct and Indirect Effects of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation on Bullying in High School Adolescents

Abstract

In an Egyptian context, in addition to identifying the direct and indirect effects of difficulties in emotion regulation on bullying, this study aims at identifying the order of bullying forms perceived by bullies and bullying victims. Moreover, the study aims at showing the differences of difficulties in emotion regulation among bullies, bullying victims and normal adolescents. The Bullying Scale and the Scale of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation were implemented to the main study sample which includes 86 Egyptian adolescents in addition to 100 adolescents for validation sample. The regression analysis mainly used to identify the direct and indirect effects of difficulties in emotion regulation and various forms of bullying among adolescents in addition to various statistical methods to identify other objectives. The bullying forms perceived by bullies were social bullying, psychological bullying and physical bullying respectively. Bullying forms perceived by bullying victims were physical bullying, psychological bullying and social bullying respectively. There were significant differences in difficulties in emotion regulation dimensions among bullies, bullying victims and normal adolescents. Mainly, the study suggested that there are direct and indirect effects of all the dimensions of difficulties in emotion regulation on bullying.