Table 3.

Factor loadings based on a principal components analysis with a varimax rotation for items for the influence measure of the SPM (N = 150)

	Internal influence	External influence
1. The influence of others made me act that way		.82
2. Felt pressure from peers to act in a certain way		.76
3. I believed that the role I played would make me more popular		.74
4. The role I played made more people join in the bullying		.71
5. I believed that I could have changed my role if I wanted to		.37
6. There was no influence on my decision to act in a certain way		.33
7. I believed that anything I did would not impact the person after the bullying stopped	.71
8. The role I played had an influence on others	.65
9. The role I played influenced others to get involved in the incident	.59	.31
10. I believed that anything I did would not impact the person after the bullying stopped	−.47	.33