Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support from Teacher in Relation to Dark Tried Personality, and Social Comparison with Bullying Behavior in Females

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the mediating role of perceived social support from teacher in relation to dark tried personality, and social comparison with bullying behavior in females (average age: 16.82 and Sd: 1.04). The present research was descriptive-correlational and based on structural equation modeling. A total of 384 secondary school female students in Urmia were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method and responded the Illinois Bully Scale, Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Machiavellianism personality scale, Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, Perceived Social Support scale, Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure questionnaires. SPSS and Smart PLS software were used in order to analyze the conceptual model, test the research hypotheses, and statistical inference. The results of structural equation modeling confirmed the mediating role of perceived social support from teacher in the effect of Machiavellianism on bullying. Besides, the results revealed that the perceived social support from teacher could not play a mediating role between narcissism and bullying; Psychopathy and bullying; and social comparison and bullying. Based on the the findings, narcissism and Machiavellianism have a positive significant effect on bullying while Psychopathy has no effect on it. In addition, social comparison has a positive significant effect on bullying, but social support has a negative significant effect on bullying. According to the value obtained for GOF (0.370), a suitable and strong fit of the overall model was confirmed.