THE BULLYING OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: THEORETICAL RELATIONS OF GENERAL STRAIN THEORY AND SELF-CONTROL THEORY

Abstract

This study aims to examine the relation among bullying in secondary school student, the General Strain theory, and the Self-control theory. From literature review, bullying is categorized into four subjects such physical, verbal, social and cyber bullying. The General Strain Theory is classified into three areas as failure to achieve positively valued goals, presentation of negative stimuli, removal of positive valued stimuli, and self-control theory. This survey is a quantitative study with 400 participants. It found that cyberbullying presented positive correlation with negative stimuli, which if a factor has a high volume and another factor will completely increase. The relation is the same direction. There was not statistically significant relation between bullying and self-control at the 0.05 level.