SUSPICIOUSNESS AS A MEDIATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMONSTRATIVENESS AND AGGRESSION IN BULLYING |
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| 2026 |
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| 92-107 | буллинг, анализ медиации, враждебная атрибуция, личностные черты, демонстративность, bullying, mediation analysis, hostile attribution, personality traits, demonstrativeness |
| This article is devoted to a study aimed at identifying and analyzing psychological personality traits that mediate the relationship between individual-typological traits and the aggressive behavior of bullies included in bullying structures. The study hypothesis was the existence of specific personality mediators that mediate the relationship between individual-typological predictors and aggression in bullying. The study involved 138 adolescents (students in grades 5–9), identified as bullies based on hierarchical cluster analysis. Statistical processing was performed in jamovi 2.7.18. To test the mediation hypothesis, the bootstrapping confidence interval method for the indirect effect (5000 repeated samples) was used within the framework of the simple mediation model. It was found that demonstrativeness was negatively associated with suspiciousness (? = -0.79; p < 0.001), while suspiciousness positively predicted aggression (? = 0.83; p < 0.001). The indirect effect of demonstrativeness on aggression through suspiciousness was negative and statistically significant (? = -0.66; p < 0.001; 95% CI [-0.89; -0.43]). The direct effect of demonstrativeness on aggression became insignificant after including suspiciousness in the model (? = 0.05; p = 0.525). Thus, demonstrativeness can be viewed as a personal resource that weakens hostile attribution and basic distrust of the world. The obtained results deepen our understanding of the structural and dynamic organization of the personality determinants of bullying and can be used in the development of psychopreventive programs aimed at correcting suspiciousness as a target of intervention. |
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