The Role of Locus of Control, Self-Concept on Bullying Behavior of Adolescence

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association of locus of control, self-concept on bullying behavior of adolescence. For this purpose a total of 200 adolescent’s respondents from Dhaka city, selected through purposive sampling method in this research. Three different measures were used for data collection as adapted bangla version (Shahinuzzaman, 2016) of Modified aggression scale (Bosworth & Espelage, 1995), adapted bangla version of internal control index (ICI) (Ilyas,2000) of Duttweilers (1984) and adapted bangla version of Beck Inventory for youth (BSCI-Y-Self-concept) for data collection. The result of the present study was found negative correlation between bullying behavior and locus of control (r= 0.063, p<0.018) and self-concept (r= 0.181 p<0.05). That means, adolescent who have less positive self-concept and lower internal locus of control were involve in bullying. Though ANOVA indicated that in bullying behavior was accounted by joint linear influence of self-concept and locus of control. Regression analysis indicates self-concept and locus of control influences on bullying behavior 17.6% and 2.1% respectively and influence jointly 3.3%.