Designing a Bullying Tendency Model based on Neurological Function with the Mediation of Alexia in Students

Bullying at school is one of the problematic behaviors of adolescents, which has recently attracted the attention of researchers and experts in the field of psychology in the last three decades, and has been the focus of many studies. Therefore, the purpose of the current research was to design a model of bullying tendency based on neurological function with the mediation of ataxia in students.

The method of the current research is correlational and structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population of the research was made up of all 560 male students of the first secondary school in the ninth grade in 28 non-profit schools in District 5 of Tehran in the academic year of 2019-2019. 240 people were selected as the sample size by two-stage cluster method. The tools of data collection were the Illinois Bullying Questionnaire, the Rescue Neurological Function Questionnaire and the Toronto Dyslexia Questionnaire. In this research, SPSS22 and Amose 23 software were used to analyze the information obtained from structural regression equation modeling.

The results of the research showed that the path coefficient of neurocognitive function (β = -0.41, p = 0.001) and ataxia (β = 0.45, p = 0.001) is significant to bullying tendency.

According to the results, the indirect relationship between neurological function and the tendency to bully through aphasia is significant with β=-0.35 at the significance level of p≤0.01.