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The relationship between self-esteem and bullying behavior among adolescent in tunisia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

R. Ayoub ,
T. Brahim ,
N. Ben Salem ,
N. Brigui ,
A. Guedria  and
N. Gaddour
R. Ayoub
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
T. Brahim*
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
N. Ben Salem
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
N. Brigui
Affiliation:
Pedopsychiatrie, fattouma bourguiba hospital, monastir, Tunisia
A. Guedria
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
N. Gaddour
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Bullying is a serious problem for school youth. It is prevalent across the elementary and secondary school years and it has serious consequences for both bullies and victims.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and bullying behavior.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study including children enrolled in two high schools in Sousse, Tunisia. The students were asked to complete two questionnaires: the Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument witch is a multidimensional scale designed to assess bullying involvement both as target and perpetrator and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale.

Results

We recruited 600 adolescent. The mean age of our population was 13.76 ±1.37 and the sex ratio was 1. More than 95% of adolescent who reported that they had been victims of bullying had a very low self-esteem comparing to those who stated that they had never been bullied (4.4%). Our results have also shown that bullies had a lower self-esteem than children who had not bullied others.

Conclusions

We found that both victims and bullies tend to have low self-esteem. Our findings could help to understand better the role that individual characteristics and personal qualities such as self-esteem play on bullying, and provide the scientific knowledge to develop successful strategies to prevent this phenomenon.

Keywords

self-esteembullying behavioradolescent
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S216
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