Benefits of Bullying? A Test of the Evolutionary Hypothesis in Three Cohorts

Recent work on bullying perpetration includes the hypothesis that bullying carries an evolutionary advantage for perpetrators in terms of health and reproductive success. We tested this hypothesis in the National Child Development Study (n = 4998 male, n = 4831 female), British Cohort Study 1970 (n ...

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Autores principales: Kretschmer, Tina, la Roi, Chaïm, van der Ploeg, Rozemarijn, Veenstra, René
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Empirical Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34448280
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12675
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la Roi, Chaïm
van der Ploeg, Rozemarijn
Veenstra, René
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description Recent work on bullying perpetration includes the hypothesis that bullying carries an evolutionary advantage for perpetrators in terms of health and reproductive success. We tested this hypothesis in the National Child Development Study (n = 4998 male, n = 4831 female), British Cohort Study 1970 (n = 4261 male, n = 4432 female), and TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey (n = 486 male, n = 521 female), where bullying was assessed in adolescence (NCDS, BCS70: age 16, TRAILS: age 14) and outcomes in adulthood. Partial support for the evolutionary hypothesis was found as bullies had more children in NCDS and engaged in sexual intercourse earlier in TRAILS. In contrast, bullies reported worse health in NCDS and BCS70.
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spelling pubmed-95454782022-10-14 Benefits of Bullying? A Test of the Evolutionary Hypothesis in Three Cohorts Kretschmer, Tina la Roi, Chaïm van der Ploeg, Rozemarijn Veenstra, René J Res Adolesc Empirical Articles Recent work on bullying perpetration includes the hypothesis that bullying carries an evolutionary advantage for perpetrators in terms of health and reproductive success. We tested this hypothesis in the National Child Development Study (n = 4998 male, n = 4831 female), British Cohort Study 1970 (n = 4261 male, n = 4432 female), and TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey (n = 486 male, n = 521 female), where bullying was assessed in adolescence (NCDS, BCS70: age 16, TRAILS: age 14) and outcomes in adulthood. Partial support for the evolutionary hypothesis was found as bullies had more children in NCDS and engaged in sexual intercourse earlier in TRAILS. In contrast, bullies reported worse health in NCDS and BCS70. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-27 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9545478/ /pubmed/34448280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12675 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34448280
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12675
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