Research on value orientations of bullying participants in educational space

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present theoretical substantiation and empirical research on value orientations of bullying participants in educational space. The study theoretically substantiates psychological characteristics of the phenomenon of bullying in the dimension of value orientations of its participants. As methodology, this paper outlines methodological foundations of the empirical research using valid psycho-diagnostic instruments. It was determined that the value orientation “pleasant pastime, rest” prevails in all the bullying participants, except the passive witnesses, that proves the correlation of “stressful situation” of bullying with “physical and moral fatigue” (p ≤ .05). The dominating value orientation of the victims and witnesses who helped them is “help and mercy to other people”, and the orientations “high social status” and “people management” are characteristic of the bullers (p ≤ .05). In conclusion, the study generalizes that the obtained empirical results and theoretical substantiation will contribute to operationalization of solving educational problems at schools; implementation of the obtained results into prophylactic and correction-development work will reduce the spread and the level of a negative effect of bullying on the entities of educational space through the impact on their value orientations.