Although the correspondence between attitudes and behavior is not
perfect (e.g., Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), attitudes toward bullying and aggression,
in general, have been shown to be associated with corresponding behavior.
For example, Huessman and Guerra (1997) found significant relations
between children’s attitudes about aggression and actual aggressive behavior
with probullying attitudes and the bullying behavior moderately correlated
among school children (e.g., Boulton, Bucci, & Hawker, 1999; Rigby, 1997).
Furthermore, Salmivalli and Voeten (2004) found that attitudes predicted
student behavior in most cases for all bullying roles (the victim role was not
considered in this study).