Perceptions of School Aggressors and Victims in Adolescents and Their Parents

The article considers the results of a study of ideas about aggression and victimization of subjects of educational relations within the framework of the concept of school bullying, which includes mandatory components of the offender (aggressor) and his victim. The purpose of the study: to identify the specifics of the ideas of adolescents and their parents about school aggressors and victims on a sample that included 70 adolescents, parents of adolescents (120 people) are presented. It has been established that the ideas of the school aggressor and the school victim are signifi­cantly more universal among parents, and more individualized among adolescents, containing fewer stereotypical elements. The image of the “aggressor” in the minds of teenagers is more positive than the image of the “victim”; the popularity of the status of the aggressor in school teenagers has been confirmed environment. In the representations of the parent community, the images of the victim and the aggressor are stereotypical; the victim is perceived mainly as endowed with positive personal qualities, and the school aggressor – with negative ones.