BACKGROUND School bullying, the most common type of school violence, comprises a spectrum of aggressive behaviors that involve both perpetrators and victims. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the extent and nature of school bullying among middle school students in the North of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 834 Iranian middle ...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, concerns about bullying and its role in school violence, depression, and health concerns have grown. However, no large studies in the United States have examined the prevalence of bullying during elementary school or its association with objective measures of school attendance and achievement. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of bullying during elementary...

PURPOSE The negative effects of peer aggression on mental health are key issues for public health. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between cyberbullying and school bullying victimization with suicidal ideation, plans and attempts among middle and high school students, and to test whether these relationships were mediated by reports of depression. METHODS Data for thi...

PURPOSE To examine the association between income inequality and school bullying in an international sample of preadolescents and to test for mediation of this association by the availability of social support from families, peers, and schools. METHODS The study used economic data from the 2006 United Nations Development Program Human Development Report and survey data from the 2005/2006 Heal...

PURPOSE A number of studies have tried to identify risk factors for being involved in bullying in order to help developing preventive measures; however, to our knowledge, no study has investigated the effect of nocturnal lifestyle behavior such as sleep pattern or cellular phone usage. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between school bullying and sleep pattern or no...

BACKGROUND Few studies have been carried out in low- middle-income countries assessing contextual characteristics associated with bullying. This study aimed to assess the relative importance of contextual (school and city) and individual-level factors to explain the variance in verbal bullying among a nationally representative sample of Brazilian adolescents. METHODS 59,348 students from 1,45...

Andershad, H., Kerr, M., & Stattin, H. (2001). Bullying in school and violence on the streets: Are the same people involved? Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology & Crime Prevention, 2(1), 31-49. • From abstract: “Results show that bullying others in school was strongly linked to violent behaviour and weapon-carrying on the streets, both among boys and girls. It was also found that bul...

INTRODUCTION Research dedicated to identification of precursors to cases of aggravated bullying in schools has led to enhanced knowledge of risk factors for both victimization and perpetration. However, characteristics among those who are more likely to intervene in such situations are less understood. The purpose of this study is to examine the associations between demographic characteristics,...

PURPOSE Low socioeconomic status is an important risk factor for child psychiatric problems. Low socioeconomic status is also associated with psychiatric problems later in life. We investigated the effects of group bullying on clinical characteristics and psychopathology in elementary school students using child-welfare facilities. METHODS Three hundred and fifty-eight elementary school stude...