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The relationship between personality and bullying among primary school children: the mediation role of trait emotion intelligence and empathy.
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- Relationship Between Bullying, Victimization, and the Big Five Personality Traits in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Social and emotional skills and different bullying behavior of students: serial mediating role of perceived relationships with teachers and sense of belonging at school.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Bullying and Cyberbullying Are Associated with Inappropriate Use of the Internet, Cell Phones, and Video Games in Children and Adolescents.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- When Push Comes to Shove: Unravelling the Developmental and Longitudinal Dynamic Relationship between Bullying and Empathy in Chinese School Children.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Teachers' Perceptions and Position Regarding the Problem of Bullying and Its Socio-Educational Prevention.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Big-five personality traits and depression: chain mediation of self-efficacy and walking.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Gender differences in teenager bullying dynamics and predictors of peer-to-peer intimidation.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Association between Reaction Times in the Joint Simon Task and Personality Traits.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Perception of Bullying in Early Childhood Education in Spain: Pre-School Teachers vs. Psychologists.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Previous School Bullying-Associated Depression in Chinese College Students: The Mediation of Personality.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background/Objectives: Several studies have shown that personality traits are a benchmark in research field of bullying prevention, while others have highlighted that the socio-emotional skills are important to prevent a wide range of maladjusted behaviors, suggesting that the investment in their developing may mediate the effects of personality dispositions. The present study aims to clarify if socio-emotional attitudes can mediate the relationships between personality traits and bullying. Methods: Five sequential mediation models are tested using the Big Five personality traits as focal predictors, bullying as the outcome, and trait emotional intelligence and empathy as causally chained mediators, involving 199 primary school children (8-10 years) through the Bullying Prevalence Questionnaire, the Big Five Questionnaire for children, the Emotional Intelligence Index and the Empathy-Teen Conflict Survey. Results: Data showed that openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness were inversely related to bullying, and that the causal chain of TEI-empathy negatively and completely mediated the relationship between emotional instability and bullying and negatively and partially mediated the relationship between openness and bullying. Conclusions: These results suggest that TEI and empathy mediate the relationship between personality traits and bullying, reducing the risk of being involved in bullying perpetration.
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