Attachment to Parents and Peers as a Parameter of Bullying and Victimization

Table 3

Multiple comparisons (LSD post hoc analysis) with means of each category on the dependent variables.

Dependent variables	Bullies; (a)	Victims; (b)	Bully/victims; (c)	Uninvolved; (d)
Mother trust	41.07	42.48	41.04	44.80^a,b,c
Mother communication	34.76	36.51	35.57	39.17^a,b,c
Mother alienation	11.07^d	9.36	12.47^b,d	9.07
Father trust	39.48	41.12	41.64	44.21^a,b,c
Father communication	33.87	33.82	34.30	37.88^a,b,c
Father alienation	11.05^d	9.58	12.21^a,b,d	8.84
Peers trust	39.12	36.36	35.92	44.67^a,b,c
Peers communication	25.61	25.48	25.64	31.11^a,b,c
Peers alienation	16.82	16.70	18.31^d	15.57

Mean scores with superscripts indicate significant difference (P < .05) between the particular score and that of the group that the superscript indicates.