id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4664 Bullying and emotional intelligence - Wikipedia .html text/html 4929 536 47 Bullying is the most prevalent form of violence in schools and has lasting consequences into adulthood.[4] Increased concern regarding school bullying has been raised in part due to publicized suicides of childhood victims.[5] Around 40% of middle school children are directly involved in bullying at least once a week according to the National Center of Education Statistics.[4] Pre-adolescent research confirms such a negative relationship between trait EI[a] and bullying behavior; bullying behavior is negatively associated with total empathy and more specifically, the EI dimension of cognitive empathy, which is the ability to understand or take on the emotional experiences and perspectives of others.[6] It was found that adolescent bullying peer relations are also significantly negatively correlated with the dimension of EI that was conceptualized by Lomas et al. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4664.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4664.txt