This study aimed to examine the effects of school bullying victimization and perpetration experiences on adolescents’
suicidal ideation and further aimed to investigate the potential moderating effects of shame proneness in these
relationships. Four-hundred-and-seventy middle school students from Seoul and Gyeong-gi provinces participated in the
research by filling out a packet of questionnaires their measuring school bullying victimization and perpetration
experiences, suicidal ideation, and shame proneness. The correlation analysis showed that victimization and perpetration
experiences in school bullying are all positively correlated with adolescents’ suicidal ideation. Furthermore, victimization
and perpetration experiences are positively correlated with adolescents’ shame proneness, and shame proneness is also
positively correlated with adolescents’ suicidal ideation. To test the moderation effects, multiple regression analyses
hierarchically entering victimization and perpetration experiences, shame proneness, and their interaction terms were
conducted. The moderation of shame proneness was found both in the relationship between victimization experiences
and suicidal ideation and in the relationship between perpetration experiences and suicidal ideation. Specific interaction
patterns in each of these significant interaction effects were examined and the clinical implications of the research
findings were discussed.