This study tested two theories designed to explain the bullying perpetration–victimization relationship. Peer delinquency was hypothesized to mediate the pathway from bullying perpetration to victimization, in line with opportunity, lifestyle, and routine activities theories, and anger was held to mediate the pathway from bullying victimization to perpetration as set forth in general strain theory. These pathways were tested in a sample of 3,411 youth (1,728 boys, 1,683 girls) from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. A causal mediation analysis performed on three nonoverlapping waves of data, in which prior levels of each predicted variable were controlled, uncovered support for peer delinquency as a mediator of the perpetration–victimization pathway but failed to identify anger as a mediator of the victimization–perpetration pathway. Additional research is required to identify a mediator for the victimization–perpetration pathway and determine whether variables other than peer delinquency mediate the perpetration–victimization pathway.

这项研究检验了两种旨在解释欺凌行为与受害关系的理论。假设同伴犯罪是根据机会，生活方式和例行活动理论来调解从欺凌行为到受害的途径，而愤怒则是如一般应变理论中所阐述的那样来调解从欺凌行为到受害的途径。在来自澳大利亚儿童纵向研究的3,411名青年（1,728名男孩，1,683名女孩）的样本中测试了这些途径。对三个非重叠数据波进行了因果调解分析，其中控制了每个预测变量的先前水平，没有发现对同龄人犯罪作为犯罪-受害者行进路径的调解人的支持，但未能将愤怒确定为犯罪-受害者行事的调解人途径。