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Abstract
Adolescents who attend boarding schools share more time with peers than do students from day schools which, in turn, could provide more opportunities for bullying. Furthermore, some students attend boarding schools because of former social problems. In order to analyse the role of these factors, we examined the bullying behaviour of 706 German adolescents at boarding and day schools in a cross-sectional design. Adolescents at boarding schools showed higher levels of bullying by comparison to adolescents in day schools. Elevated levels of overt bullying in boarding schools could be explained by selection effects. In addition, more time spent with peers was associated with elevated levels of relational victimization. Furthermore, being overtly bullied showed stronger negative associations with life-satisfaction in students from boarding school than in students living at home.
Keywords Adolescence, aggression, boarding school, bullying, Germany, residential school, victimization
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Author biographies
Jens P. Pfeiffer, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Philipps University Marburg. His primary research interest is in the area of psychosocial development of students from boarding schools and adolescent non-suicidal self-injury.
Martin Pinquart, PhD, is a Professor at the Department of Psychology at Philipps University Marburg. His primary research interest is focused on developmental regulation and development of children and adolescents with chronic physical illness.
