Adolescents bully one another because the bullies have acceptance issues. They believe that by exhibiting dominance over their peers, they will be accepted.
According to paragraph 4 of the text, pressure to obtain acceptance from their peers as well as to gain status may be related to an increase in teasing (or name-calling or ridiculing) and bullying.
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