Table 3.
Associations between social anxiety, defending behaviors, and bullying roles (N = 2,872)
| Social anxiety score (Range: 1–3) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bivariate analysis | Multivariate regression I | Multivariate regression II | |||||||||
| Mean | SD | Test | Beta | STB | SD | p-value | Beta | STB | SD | p-value | |
| Bullying role: | |||||||||||
| Bullies (B) | 1.68 | 0.04 | F = 20.80 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 0.98 | −0.00 | −0.00 | 0.23 | 0.9898 |
| Victims (V) | 1.89 | 0.04 | (P = 0.018) | 1.73 | 0.13 | 0.26 | <.0001 | 1.67 | 0.13 | 0.26 | <.0001 |
| Bully-victims (BV) | 1.90 | 0.07 | Post-hoc test | 1.58 | 0.08 | 0.46 | <.0001 | 1.54 | 0.08 | 0.45 | 0.0009 |
| Bystanders (BY) | 1.59 | 0.01 | V, BV > B > B | ref | ref | ||||||
| Defending behaviors score | r = 0.053 | P = 0.0041 | - | 0.27 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.02 | ||||
Note 1: Means were weighted by sampling probabilities
Note 2: The two multivariate regression models were adjusted for sex, grade, aggressive personality, communication skills, school attachment, parents’ marital status, parents’ education level, family activity level, family support level, family conflict level, and punishment level. Model I examined the relationship between bullying roles and social anxiety. Model II examined the relationship between bullying roles and social anxiety after adjusting for defending behaviors