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The Conception, Expression Forms and Potential Mechanisms of Gender-Based Bullying

  • HUANG Yao ,
  • CUI Liying
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  • Department of Psychology, College of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
*CUI Liying, cui720926@163.com

Online published: 2024-06-06

Abstract

As one of the expression forms of bullying, gender-based bullying mainly refers to bullying that causes physical or psychological harm to others based on gender discrimination, gender role expectations or gender stereotypes, and gender power differences. The specific expression forms can be divided into three categories: bullying based on physiological gender characteristics, gender expression, and sexual orientation and gender identity. Several psychological processes can explain the gender-based bullying, including cognitive mechanism, normative mechanism, and social motivation mechanism. In the future, we can conduct in-depth research on the physiological mechanism, group characteristics, or cultural differences of gender bullying.

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HUANG Yao , CUI Liying . The Conception, Expression Forms and Potential Mechanisms of Gender-Based Bullying[J]. Psychological Communications, 2022 , 5(4) : 287 -293 . DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.222045

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