Child in school class can be bully, victim and defender at the same time

Primary school pupils are sometimes the bully, the victim and the defender all at the same time. That is because groups of friends exist within a school class where a child usually defends its own group, is sometimes regarded a bully by another group and is sometimes bullied by yet another group. Children can sometimes occupy several roles at once because they are often involved in different relationships that are still subject to change. These are the conclusions of sociologist Gijs Huitsing in his PhD research into bullying behaviour that he will defend on 4 December at the University of Groningen.

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