ABSTRACT
The Scandinavian countries and Finland all have a long tradition of welfare and of common concern among the inhabitants. The Scandinavian term 'mobbing' does imply that there are several members in a group. As for socio-economic status, results have been quite contradictory and thus it remains difficult to say anything for certain about this in Scandinavia. R. J. Mykletun and D. Olweus found no connections between the parents' socio-economic status and their child's participation in bullying. The history behind bullying as a field of research and concern started in 1969 with Peter Paul Heinemann, a Swedish doctor who was walking past a school when he saw some pupils in the playground. In Olweus' investigation, victims turned out to be less popular than others and the bullies were slightly less popular than those not involved in bullying, the neutrals. K. Ekman found that bullies were less popular outside school than at school.
