The results of the Youth Self-Repor

The results of the Youth Self-Report (YSR)
questionnaire for assessment of psychological
adjustment showed that participants most
frequently had attention problems, anxiety/
depression, withdrawn, social problems and
aggressive behaviors. The frequency of delinquency
problems was the lowest. The results
of the APS showed that participants
mostly had normal arousal levels.
To explore whether sociodemographic
variables, arousal levels, coping strategies and
roles in bullying behavior predict difficulties
in psychological adjustment in elementary
school children, we performed a stepwise
linear regression analysis to determine the
contribution of each variable to explaining
the difficulties in psychological adjustment.
Scores on the YSR subscales (Anxious/depressed,
Withdrawn, Somatic complaints,
Social problems, Thought problems, Attention
problems, Delinquent behavior, Aggressive
behavior, Internalizing dimension,
and Externalizing dimension) were taken as
criterion variables. Predictive variables were
sociodemographic variables (students sex,
age, number of family members, number ofchildren in their family), roles in bullying behavior
(victim, bully, bully/victim), different
coping strategies (Seeking Social Support,
Self-Reliance/Problem Solving, Distancing,
Internalizing and Externalizing) as well as
score of participants arousal level.