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Dr. Siân Jones, #PITPfriends wordpress.com FRIENDS LIKE THESE: PEER RELATIONSHIPS IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

NAVIGATING THE PLAYGROUND What are the “rules” of friendship groups? What happens when peer relationships break down? What role does the friendship group have in maintaining or resisting bullying? What happens when peer relationships break down? What role does the friendship group have in maintaining or resisting bullying? What is the role of humour in friendship groups?

FRIENDSHIPS

Friendship: a mutual relationship between two or more people (Bukowski, Newcomb, & Hartup, 1996). Measuring Friendships: Has its basis in sociometry (Moreno, 1930) and involves asking children to nominate their friends. The number of “reciprocal friends” that a child has can then be determined. Peer Acceptance: a measure of a child’s liking by their peers.

FRIENDSHIPS MATTER 5 Children have a need to feel that they belong to groups Work has started to explain the processes underpinning children’s behaviour in groups, including the role of group membership. Belonging has an influential bearing on children’s self-worth

ACADEMIC DEFINITIONS Farrington (1993): Bullying is repeated oppression of a less powerful person, physical or psychological, by a more powerful person. Smith & Sharp (1994): The systematic abuse of power. Rigby (2002): Bullying involves a desire to hurt + a harmful action + a power imbalance + (typically) repetition + an unjust use of power + evident enjoyment by the aggressor and generally a sense of being oppressed on the part of the victim. BULLYING?

Ground-breaking work conducted by Olweus (1978) in Scandinavia. “Evidence from school inspections, pupil surveys, independent research and parent and child help-lines suggests that bullying is a significant and serious problem” (‘Safe to Learn’, DCSF, 2007) Evidence that 29.6% of UK schoolchildren aged 8-18 years were targets of bullying at time of study (Analitis et al., 2009). BULLYING STATS

BULLYING IS ABOUT GROUPS

Hawkins & Pepler (2001) Findings: Peers present in 88% of bullying episodes Peers intervened in 19% of all episodes 57% of interventions effective Effectiveness not related to the nature of the intervention. BYSTANDER BEHAVIOUR

Other children witness bullying episodes. Worryingly, according to Rivers et al. (2010) witnessing bullying can have a detrimental impact on well- being. Important to consider peer relationships at the group level BYSTANDER BEHAVIOUR

RULES OF FRIENDSHIP GROUPS Peer group norms of inclusion and exclusion are felt from age seven years Children learn that abiding by the “rules” ensures they will be accepted by the group Mixing children with different behavioural traits can lead to deviancy training

Group Norm of Bullying Group: To be kind or unkind to others GROUP NORMS STUDY Ninety children (aged years) are allocated to one of three groups at random: e.g., Jenny’s group, Pete’s group, etc.. They read a story in which a member of one of these groups, supported by other group members, bullies a person from one of the other groups. They respond to questions about the story posed in a questionnaire. Ninety children (aged years) are allocated to one of three groups at random: e.g., Jenny’s group, Pete’s group, etc.. They read a story in which a member of one of these groups, supported by other group members, bullies a person from one of the other groups. They respond to questions about the story posed in a questionnaire.

Jenny’s group were looking at something together over Jenny’s shoulder as they walked; all three of them. They all laughed. Debbie’s phone beeped: a text message. She fished it out of her bag, and read the message; How r u, Debbie? Who cares? U r such a loser! It was from Jenny and her group. Debbie wiped away a tear, and put her phone away quickly. She had hoped things would be alright tonight. Shakily, she said good-bye to the others, pushed open her garden gate, and let herself into the empty house. She started to cry to herself. 13 Describes groups walking home from school Highlights the norm of bullying group (kind or unkind to others ) GROUP NORMS STUDY

GROUP NORMS: IS BULLYING MEAN?

Ingroup identification enhances children’s reactions. Intergroup emotions are (generally) experienced more keenly by those who are highly identified with a group. FRIENDSHIP GROUP IDENTIFICATION

PRIDE IN GROUP BULLYING

ANGER IN GROUP BULLYING

WHY DO GROUP EMOTIONS MATTER? 18 Group- Based Pride 0.58* 0.52* Group- Based Anger Affiliating with the perpetrator’s group Telling an adult

IMPLICATIONS Peer group memberships have an important bearing on what children feel, and these feelings are linked to what children think they would do in response to bullying. Asking children why they might experience a sense of pride if they were part of a peer group engaging in bullying, and how best to act (or not act) upon this feeling. Effective intervention might therefore involve encouraging children to question peer group norms that condone treating other children badly Provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for peer support interventions, by invoking the role of group-based emotions Peer group memberships have an important bearing on what children feel, and these feelings are linked to what children think they would do in response to bullying. Asking children why they might experience a sense of pride if they were part of a peer group engaging in bullying, and how best to act (or not act) upon this feeling. Effective intervention might therefore involve encouraging children to question peer group norms that condone treating other children badly Provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for peer support interventions, by invoking the role of group-based emotions

Within 51 cases reported to us, there were 23 cases where a single target was bullied by a group of children, but the target was then supported by other children. Children (friends of the bullied) approached me and told me about what had happened, giving me names of the bullies, also of other children who could corroborate their story.[....] they had not approached any other teachers or informed their parents (P 19, years) I discovered that a group of girls in my class were bullying one particular child... there were about 7 or 8 involved altogether (P30, years). (REAL) GROUPS AND BULLYING

Defenders are those children who “take sides with the victims, comforting and supporting them” Defenders tend to: be emotionally stable be cognitively skilled be empathic have high self-efficacy High levels of defending behaviour under conditions of high perceived peer pressure, even when personal responsibility for intervening was low. Defenders are those children who “take sides with the victims, comforting and supporting them” Defenders tend to: be emotionally stable be cognitively skilled be empathic have high self-efficacy High levels of defending behaviour under conditions of high perceived peer pressure, even when personal responsibility for intervening was low. DEFENDERS

Social network research has shown that defenders are well-liked and popular among their peers. SOCIAL NETWORKS

Sample of UK children, aged years. Data were collected at two time points – Autumn and Summer Terms. Children completed peer nominations of peer victimization. Sample of UK children, aged years. Data were collected at two time points – Autumn and Summer Terms. Children completed peer nominations of peer victimization. ESRC HUMOUR AND BULLYING PROJECT

Children were asked to nominate a best friend, and their friends, in the class. They were asked to give each classmate a rating from 1 “dislike very much”, to 5 “like very much”. Children were asked to nominate a best friend, and their friends, in the class. They were asked to give each classmate a rating from 1 “dislike very much”, to 5 “like very much”. ESRC HUMOUR AND BULLYING PROJECT

A group is defined as a set of children (N ≥2) each of whom reciprocally nominates at least two others in the group as a friend or best friend, and reciprocally gives at least one of those a friendship rating of 5 (“like very much”). IDENTIFYING FRIENDSHIP GROUPS 25

We thought that having defenders in the friendship group, and having children with multiple friendship group associations in the friendship group, would be negatively related over time to the levels of peer victimization. We controlled for the effects of gender, peer acceptance, and class size. HYPOTHESES Peer Victimization at Time 1 Peer Victimization at Time 2 Defenders in Friendship Groups Multiple Group Associations of Friends

LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSES ß=-.155, t =-3.86, p<.001.

Four dimensions: Self-enhancing (e.g. ‘My humorous outlook on life keeps me from getting too upset or depressed about things’). Aggressive (e.g. ‘If someone makes a mistake I often tease them about it’) Affiliative (e.g. ‘I enjoy making people laugh’) Self-defeating (e.g. ‘I often try to make people like me or accept me more by saying something funny about my own weaknesses, blunders or faults HUMOUR AND BULLYING

Links between humour and social competence Children who are bullied at a disadvantage with respect to the development of humour competence. Gravitate to self-defeating humour Self-defeating humour as a risk factor for victimisation HUMOUR AND BULLYING

CAN YOU LAUGH BULLYING OFF? Victimisation Maladjustment Affiliative humour Self-defeating humour

IMPLICATIONS Friendships, groups, and humour can be a force for good. The reduction in peer victimization as a function of the number of defenders and ‘networked’ children in a child’s friendship group emphasizes the need to investigate bullying as a group phenomenon at the level of the friendship group in real friendship groups. Humour is a social skill that may be focused on to help reduce bullying.

Group processes are pertinent to the maintenance and resistance of bullying. In their responses to bullying, children take account of the norms of a perpetrating group, and are influenced by ingroup identification. Successful anti-bullying interventions demand an appreciation not only of the group-level nature of bullying, and the involvement of bystanders, but also of the group processes by which children (a) come to be involved in bullying in the first place, and (b) are motivated or empowered to resist it. Group processes are pertinent to the maintenance and resistance of bullying. In their responses to bullying, children take account of the norms of a perpetrating group, and are influenced by ingroup identification. Successful anti-bullying interventions demand an appreciation not only of the group-level nature of bullying, and the involvement of bystanders, but also of the group processes by which children (a) come to be involved in bullying in the first place, and (b) are motivated or empowered to resist it. SUMMARY

. Having more defenders in one’s friendship group, and having children in one’s friendship group who are networked across multiple friendship groups, reduces peer victimization across a nine month period. We now need to better understand the friendship group concerns of (a) defenders, and (b) those who belong to multiple friendship groups, as a basis for developing anti-bullying interventions encouraging intragroup defending of victims.. Having more defenders in one’s friendship group, and having children in one’s friendship group who are networked across multiple friendship groups, reduces peer victimization across a nine month period. We now need to better understand the friendship group concerns of (a) defenders, and (b) those who belong to multiple friendship groups, as a basis for developing anti-bullying interventions encouraging intragroup defending of victims. SUMMARY

Siân #PITPfriendslikethese ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Claire Fox Simon Hunter Keele Research Team Jon Kennedy Susan Pratley All the children who took part, and the schools and parents who allowed them to do so

Mean SD Time 1 Peer Victimization 2. Time 2 Peer Victimization.748*** 3. Time 1 % Defenders in Group.115** Time 2 % Defenders in Group.138**.150**.248*** 5. Time 1 N of Membership Groups-.212*** Time 2 N of Membership Groups-.161***-.216*** *** 7. Time 1 Peer Acceptance-.385***-.369*** ***.259*** 8. Time 2 Peer Acceptance-.096*-.123** ***.122** 9. Gender.133***.112** ** ** 10. Time 1 % of Networked Group Members in Membership Groups * Time 2 % of Networked Group Members in Membership Groups.146***.102** ** ***.097 *p <.05; **p <.01, ***p <.001. CORRELATIONS