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social information processing model suggests that the overall conduct of a
person is the product of situational cues and past experiences. Likewise, a student who
is new to on-campus life perceives his surroundings and social interactions
according to the previous positive or negative social experiences. This research aimed to examine the
relationship of perceived ethnic discrimination, temperamental characteristics,
and bullying behavior (verbal, non-verbal, or bullying perpetration) among
university hostilities. A purposive sampling strategy was used to recruit 635
university hostilities who belonged to on-campus’s ethnic minority groups.
Constructs were analyzed by the Adult Temperament Questionnaire (self-report),
Illinois Bully Scale (Teacher’s Version), and Perceived Ethnic Discrimination
Questionnaire Community Version (Self-report). The results suggested that two
dimensions of perceived discrimination (place discrimination and perceived
exclusion) acted as mediators between temperamental characteristics (Effortful
control, negative affect, and extraversion) and types of bullying (physical,
non-physical, and bullying perpetration).