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CHAPTER IV:
RESULTS
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new measure of children’s social reasoning
about bully victimization, the Children’s Bully/Victim Survey (CBVS). This chapter will address
each of the guiding research questions in the order outlined in Chapters I and III. Analyses and
results of the related hypotheses will follow each question. Conclusions for each hypothesis will
follow each analysis. The research questions address the following issues: 1) psychometric
properties of the CBVS, 2) the influence of children’s intellectual ability on children’s CBVS
Action and Justification Choices, 3) the relationship between CBVS Action and Justification
Choices, 4) the ability of the CBS to predict children’s CBVS Action Choices, 5) the ability of the
CBS to predict children’s CBVS Justification Choices, and 6) the influence of demographic
variables (children’s gender vs. story character role vs. Story Form of Victimization vs.
children’s Bully/Victim group membership) on children’s CBVS Action and Justification
Choices. A summary of the results will follow at the end of the analyses. The following analyses
address the research questions for this study.
Question One
What are the psychometric properties of the child-report CBVS?
Initially, reliability and correlation analyses were performed on CBVS Action Choice
(Prosocial vs. Aggressive) and Justification Choice (Justice/Fair vs. Prosocial/Care vs.
Aggressive/Retribution) data that children rated on a Likert scale in response to victimization
where 1 equals very bad, 2 equals kind of bad, 3 equals kind of good, and 4 equals very good.
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