Abociations between Dutch and Indian adolescents' bullying role behavior and peer-group status:Cross-culturally testing an evolutionary hypothesis.

Contemporary research adopts an evolutionary theoretical perspective in which bullying is strategic behavior that is conducive to peer-group status enhancement. Within this view, a high social status (i.e., popularity) has been abociated with bullying others, while a high affiliative status (i.e., preference) has been abociated with defending others. This study investigated whether the abociations between adolescents' bullying role behavior (i.e., bully, follower, defender, outsider, and victim) and their peer-group status (i.e., popularity and preference) are crob-culturally similar. A multig... Mehr ...