TY - JOUR
T1 - Benefits of Bullying? A Test of the Evolutionary Hypothesis in Three Cohorts
AU - Kretschmer, Tina
AU - la Roi, Chaïm
AU - van der Ploeg, Rozemarijn
AU - Veenstra, René
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), UCL Institute of Education, for the use of the NCDS and BCS70 data, and to the UK Data Service for making them available. Neither CLS nor the UK Data Service bear any responsibility for the analysis or interpretation of these data. This research is also part of the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS). Participating centers of TRAILS include various departments of the University Medical Center and University of Groningen, the University of Utrecht, the Radboud Medical Center Nijmegen, and the Parnassia Group, all in the Netherlands. TRAILS has been financially supported by various grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), ZonMW, GB‐MaGW, the Dutch Ministry of Justice, the European Science Foundation, the European Research Council, BBMRI‐NL, and the participating universities. We are grateful to everyone who participated in this research or worked on this project. Preparation of the manuscript has been supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant awarded to Tina Kretschmer under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program (Grant Agreement Number 757364, Title: Ghosts from the Past‐Consequences of Adolescent Peer Relations Across Contexts and Generations). Chaïm la Roi acknowledges funding from two research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) when preparing this manuscript for submission: YOUNG [2012‐1741] and Interlocking inequalities [2016‐07099].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - bullying perpetration
KW - evolutionary hypothesis
KW - longitudinal cohort study
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113556582&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jora.12675
DO - 10.1111/jora.12675
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113556582
SN - 1050-8392
VL - 32
SP - 1178
EP - 1193
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
IS - 3
ER -