Characteristics of victim's environmental cognition in bullying problem and the influence of isolation

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590198
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Hatano Jun 静岡英和学院大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (10311953)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 孤立 / いじめ / 距離の認知 / 対人距離

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the problem of bullying in school, victims are usually isolated from their classmates. But existing psychological research on bullying did not pay attention to how the isolated victims recognize their physical and social environment at school. This research examined the characteristics of environmental cognition among isolated victims through literature study, interview with former victims, and two experiments. The results showed that the experience of isolation changes the victim’s environmental cognition (e.g. underestimation of the distance to the classmates or the victimizer).

Free Research Field

社会心理学