Bullying-Victimization, Resilience, and Adjustment in College Students

Abstract

Abstract
Background and Objective: Bullying and victimization remained severe and widespread issues in schools
and colleges, and its occurrence has been well recognized via a large scale national and international studies.
The current study aimed to examine the relationship between bullying-victimization, resilience, and students'
adjustments (academic, social and psychological). Furthermore, the mediating role of resilience between
bullying-victimization and adjustments will be examined.
Methods: This correlational study was conducted from May 2022 to September 2022 through an online
survey and a sample of 200 college students, between the age of 15 to 20, was taken from Lahore city. For
assessment purpose, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, The Multidimensional Peer-Victimization Scale,
and Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire were used. Bullying-Victimization was taken as
independent variable, resilience was taken as mediating variable, while adjustment (academic, social and
psychological) was taken as outcome variable.
Results: The results indicated that bullying-victimization has a negative relationship with resilience (p < .05)
and students' adjustments. However, resilience was found to be significantly and positively associated with
students' adjustments (p < .01). The findings of Bartlett's Test of Sphericity and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin showed
the appropriateness of sample data for conducting factor analysis. Mediation analysis revealed that resilience
significantly mediates in the association between bullying-victimization and adjustment (academic, social
and psychological), accounting for 38.90% of the total association.
Conclusion: Bullying-victimization has a negative relationship with resilience and students' academic,
social and psychological adjustments. Furthermore, resilience is positively associated with students'
adjustments. Moreover, resilience mediates the relationship between bullying-victimization and adjustment.
Keywords: Bullying-Victimization, Resilience, Social, Academic and Psychological Adjustment