Through this study has an objective to know how anger expression of children affected bullying and victimization experience. First of all, the examination was done in order to know the differences between their anger expression and bullying/victimizat...
Through this study has an objective to know how anger expression of children affected bullying and victimization experience. First of all, the examination was done in order to know the differences between their anger expression and bullying/victimization experience according to general characteristics, and then investigation was make to show the relation between them.
For that purpose, 417 children of 5th and 6th grades of 2 elementary schools in Seoul and Kyunggi Province took part in this survey.
The measure of anger expression of children is STAXI(State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory), which was invented by Spielberger(1988), adapted and modified by Jeon Gyum-goo(2000) into STAXI-K(STAXI for Korean), and amended by Kim Ho-sook(2001) again to make the sentences easy to understand for school-aged children. In addition, for the measure of bullying and victimization experience, Bully/Victim Questionnaire by Olweus(1993) and the method of measuring school violence for elementary school students of the Initiative for Safe School Seoul council(2002) modified by Kim Hyo-jin(2004) were used.
The data were analyzed with SPSS statistics program and tested with Cronbach's α, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation and Multiple regression analysis.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, the anger expression according to children's background causes turned out to be significantly different from the gender of children, their parents's academic degrees and the economic standard that children were feeling. Boys were better at anger-control than girls, and the children under fathers who graduated from graduate schools and mothers who graduated from the university had better anger-control ability. Also, it was found the difference clearly between anger-in and the economic standard that they felt themselves. However, their patents' jobs did not affect their anger expression.
Secondly, bullying and victimization experience according to background causes of children was significantly different from the genders of children. In other words, it showed that boys had more bullying and victimization experience than girls. On the other hand, there was no difference of bullying and victimization experience according to their parents's academic degrees, the job of them, and the economic standard that children were feeling.
Third, it was known that anger-out and anger-in of anger expression had connection with both bullying and victimization experience in terms of the relation between anger expression of children and bullying/victimization experience. Especially, the anger-out was connected to the bullying experience more, and the anger-in was connected to the victimization experience more.
Finally, regarding how anger expression of children affects bullying and victimization experience, it was found that anger-out and anger-in affected both bullying and victimization experience. In the case of Bullying, anger-out, anger-in and anger-control affected the Bullying experience in this order, and the anger-out had the most powerful influence in influence bullying experience. With regard to Victimization, anger-out and anger-in affected bullying experience, and it indicated that anger-in affected it more than anger-out.
Through the results of this study, it was clear know that the more anger-out and anger-in children expressed, the more bullying and victimization experience they had connection with and affected.