Perps Look Like ...

Adults should also be aware of signs that someone is the perpetrator of relational aggression. Dan Olweus, author of the book Bullying at School, gives the following signs that someone may be relationally aggressive:
• May have strong needs to dominate and subdue other students, to assert themselves with power and threat, and to get their own way; they may brag about their actual or imagined superiority
• May tease (repeatedly) in nasty ways, taunt, intimidate, threaten or ridicule
• May be average, above or below average in popularity, but often have support from at least a small number of peers
• May be hot tempered, easily angered, impulsive, and have low frustration tolerance; they have difficulty conforming to rules and tolerating adversities and delays, and may try to gain advantage by cheating
• Are often not anxious or insecure and they typically have a relatively positive view of themselves (average or better than average self esteem)