Abstract
Bullying at school is recognized as a global phenomenon affecting significantly children and
adolescent life styles. Bullying is intentional aggressive act that gives pleasure to the people
engaged in the activity. Mental health is generally viewed as a positive attribute highlighting
emotional wellbeing, the capacity to lead a creative life and flexibility to deal life’s inevitable
challenges. Expression of anger is an act of emotional outlet. There are three ways of anger
management: expression, suppression, and calming. In the present study, styles of expression of
anger among the bully perpetrators are examined. Basically there are two styles of anger
expression: anger-out and anger-in. The present study is intended to examine anger expression
styles of the bully perpetrator as well as to see the relationship between anger expression style
and the mental health. The Illinois Bully Scale was administered on 200 Delhi based public school
adolescents on the basis of which bully perpetrators were identified. Thirty identified bully
perpetrators and an equal number of non-perpetrators were included in the study. Twenty items
Spielberg’s anger expression questionnaire was used to examine styles of anger expression
whereas for assessing mental health, fifty-five items Jadish and Srivastava Mental health
inventory was administrated on the total sample. The bully perpetrators were found significantly
high on anger-out subscale whereas the non-perpetrators were found high on anger-in subscale.
Bully perpetrators were found to have significantly better mental health than non-perpetrators.
The study further revealed direct relationship between anger-out and mental health and inverse
relationship with anger-in and mental health.
