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Contents
ABSTRACT 12
Ⅰ. Introduction 14
Ⅱ. Literature Review 17
1. Definitions 17
2. School Bullying 18
3. Bullying in South Korea 20
4. Socioeconomic Status (SES) as a Risk Factor for Bullying 22
1) Relationship between SES and Bullying 22
2) Relationship between SES and Delinquency and Attitudes 24
5. Bullies and Attitudes towards Them 27
1) Research on Bullies 27
2) Research on Attitudes towards Bullies 28
6. Bully-victims and Attitudes towards Them 30
1) Research on Attitudes towards Bully-victims 30
2) Research on Victim-offenders 31
3) Research on Attitudes towards Victim-offenders 33
7. Laws on Bullying and Delinquency 37
Ⅲ. Present Study 43
Ⅳ. Method 47
1. Participants 47
2. Experimental Design 48
3. Materials 48
1) Vignette 48
2) Manipulation Check 51
3) Dependent Variables 51
4) Control Variables 52
4. Procedure 53
5. Data Analyses 53
Ⅴ. Results 54
1. Preliminary Analyses 54
1) Manipulation Check and Descriptive Statistics 54
2) Main Analyses 62
Ⅵ. Discussion 66
1. Discussion of results 66
2. Limitations and Future Research 73
3. Implications 75
Ⅶ. Conclusion 76
References 77
APPENDICES 10
〈Appendix 1〉 Screening questions 93
〈Appendix 2〉 Vignettes by condition 94
〈Appendix 3〉 Manipulation check 100
〈Appendix 4〉 Measurement of dependent variables 101
〈Appendix 5〉 Demographic variables 103
〈Appendix 6〉 Debriefing 104
국문초록 105
〈Table 1〉 Summary table of research on South Korean middle school bullying 22
〈Table 2〉 Punishments according to Article 17 of the Act on the Prevention of and Countermeasures Against Violence in Schools 38
〈Table 3〉 Punishments from Article 32 of the Juvenile Act 41
〈Table 4〉 Demographic characteristics of sample (N=269) 56
〈Table 5〉 Distribution of responses for punitive judgment 57
〈Table 6〉 Distribution of responses for harsher punitive judgments than the current eight punishments. 58
〈Table 7〉 Crosstabulation table of victimisation experience and harsher punitive judgment 60
〈Table 8〉 Descriptive statistics for punitive judgment 61
〈Table 9〉 Descriptive statistics for risk of re-offending 61
〈Table 10〉 Descriptive statistics for likelihood of responding positively to rehabilitation 62
〈Table 11〉 Correlation between victimisation experience, SES, punitive judgment, risk of re-offending and likelihoood of responding positively... 63
〈Table 12〉 Multivariate table for MANOVA analysis 63
〈Table 13〉 Estimated marginal means for victimisation experience 64