RT Article
T1 Rural-to-Urban Migration, Strain, and Bullying Perpetration: the Mediating Role of Negative Emotions, Attitude Toward Bullying, and Attachment to School
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 65
IS 1
SP 24
OP 50
A1 Cui, Kunjie
A2 To, Siu-ming
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745631941
AB Based on an integrated general strain theory, this study involved testing negative emotions (i.e., anxiety and depression), a social learning variable (i.e., attitude toward bullying), and a social control variable (i.e., attachment to school) as possible mediators of the strain-bullying relationship. A group comparison was also conducted to examine possible differences between migrant and non-migrant children. Data used in the study were derived from a questionnaire survey with a school-based multistage random sample of 1,666 children in Grades 4 to 9 in Nanjing and Guangzhou, China. Structural equation modeling and group comparison were performed with AMOS 25.0 to test the hypothesized model. The findings indicated that attitude toward bullying and attachment to school but not negative emotions mediated the strain-bullying relationship. The results also revealed that the mediation model was applicable to both migrant and non-migrant children, albeit with significant differences in certain paths within the model. The study’s framework bridged the integrated general strain theory and its typical emphasis on crime or delinquency with the pervasive behavior of school bullying in the context of Chinese rural-to-urban migration. Implications for theory and practice were discussed.
K1 Attachment to school
K1 Attitude toward bullying
K1 Bullying perpetration
K1 General Strain Theory
K1 Migration
K1 Negative emotions
DO 10.1177/0306624X20909207