Measuring the Effects of Limited and Persistent School Bullying Victimization: Repeat Victimization, Fear, and Adaptive Behaviors

Randa, Ryan; Reyns, Bradford W.; Nobles, Matt R.

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“…Youth may be reluctant to report bullying for a number of reasons. Explanations include the perception that adults will ignore an incident (deLara, 2012; Troop-Gordon & Ladd, 2015), teachers will not believe bullying occurred (Troop-Gordon & Quenette, 2010), the bullying may increase (Randa, Reyns, & Nobles, 2016), and relationships with friends could be jeopardized (Boulton, Boulton, Down, Sanders, & Craddock, 2017).…”

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Strategies to Combat Bullying: Parental Responses to Bullies, Bystanders, and Victims

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Despite numerous studies on the topic of bullying, there remains a dearth of information on how parents respond to bullying and the extent to which they are aware of their child's bullying experiences. Using qualitative data from 54 parents in a southeastern state, we explore advice that parents give their children about how to respond when their child is a bullying victim and a bystander in a bullying incident and how fearful parents are of their child being a victim of bullying and reasons behind their fear. Findings demonstrate that parental messages about responding to bullying victimization and intervening on behalf of other bully victims generally mirror those provided by schools as part of their bullying prevention efforts. However, misunderstandings about bullying and bullying responses among parents limit the effectiveness of the strategies they suggest for their children. Implications for bullying prevention programs and research are also discussed.

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Strategies to Combat Bullying: Parental Responses to Bullies, Bystanders, and Victims

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“…Cyberbullying victims experience repeatedly, and over time, negative actions communicated by their bullies through the Internet or digital devices. These actions lead to behaviours such as exclusion, teasing, taunting, name calling, spreading rumours, threats or other communications that are meant to harass, bother, annoy or torment the victim 23 . Cyberstalking victims have a greater overall number of self‐protective behaviours, including changing/quitting school 23 .…”

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“…These actions lead to behaviours such as exclusion, teasing, taunting, name calling, spreading rumours, threats or other communications that are meant to harass, bother, annoy or torment the victim 23 . Cyberstalking victims have a greater overall number of self‐protective behaviours, including changing/quitting school 23 . Children affected by cyberbullying are more prone to developing depression 8 .…”

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The impact of cyberbullying on schoolchildren’s dental anxiety in Brazil: A cross‐sectional multi‐level study

Silveira

Costa

Goettems

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Comm Dent Oral Epid

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Objectives This cross‐sectional study assessed the correlation between individual and school‐related social environment variables with dental anxiety in Brazilian schoolchildren aged 8‐12 years. Methods A sample of children from 20 private and public schools (n = 1211) from Pelotas, Brazil, were selected. Socioeconomic data were collected from parents, and data regarding children characteristics were collected using a questionnaire. Dental anxiety (the outcome) was assessed by the following question: ‘Are you afraid of going to the dentist?’ Dental examinations were performed to assess caries experience (DMFT ≥ 1). The social school environment was assessed by a questionnaire administered to schools’ coordinators and considered: type of school, verbal violence between students, presence of gangs at school and cyberbullying episodes. Multilevel Poisson regression was used to investigate the association between school social environment and dental anxiety. Results The prevalence of dental anxiety was 9.1% (95%CI 7.5‐10.8). For the individual variables, anxiety was more prevalent in girls [1.85 (1.21‐2.81)], in children with less‐educated mothers [1.50 (1.00‐2.27)] and in children who never attended to the dentist [2.48 (1.65‐3.72)]. For contextual variables, episodes of cyberbullying in school increased the prevalence of dental anxiety by almost 80% [1.78 (1.14‐2.78)]. Conclusions The school social environment influences dental anxiety. The results suggest that it is important to establish strategies focused on promoting healthier environments and preventing cyberbullying in order to reduce the occurrence of dental anxiety.

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“…Internalizing problems, such as depression, are a common correlate of bullying victimization and could easily serve as a risk factor for future victimization (Tennant et al, 2019). The same could be said for persistent school bullying victimization, which has been found to increase fear of future victimization (Randa et al 2019). Although no data currently exist for the third risk factor, seating location on the bus, sitting at the back of the bus could lead to more opportunities for bullying victimization because of reduced surveillance by the bus driver (Cohen and Felson 1979).…”

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“…In a large-scale survey of US students in grades 5 through 12, fear and avoidance were found to be particularly prominent in bullied children (Vidourek et al 2016). Regarding avoidance, Parrish et al (2012) discovered that fear of bullying was instrumental in limiting the playground activities of a significant portion of children enrolled in several Australian primary schools, whereas Randa et al (2019) observed that persistent victimization was associated with higher levels of fear and avoidance than isolated or limited victimization. Moreover, one of the principal reasons given by bystanders for not intervening in a bullying event was fear of becoming a victim themselves (Coloroso 2005).…”

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The Fear of Being Bullied on the School Bus: Perceptions, Correlations, and Sex Differences

Walters

Kremser

Runell

2020

Int Journal of Bullying Prevention

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The goals of this study were to determine whether children who took the bus to school on a regular basis felt safest during the commute to school, in school, or on the commute home from school, and to identify the factors that correlate with fear of being bullied on the bus. A sample of 610 students (296 boys, 313 girls; mean age = 11.25 years, SD = 0.51) was surveyed during the fall semester of their first year of middle school (sixth grade). Students indicated that they felt safer in school than they did on the commute to or from school, which nearly always occurred by bus. Sex differences were investigation and found to be small in number and magnitude. These differences were limited to slightly more girls than boys reporting feeling safer in school, slightly more boys than girls reporting feeling safer on the commute home from school, and a modestly stronger association between bullying victimization and fear of being bullied on the school bus in boys than in girls, although the effect was significant in both sexes. There were no significant differences between boys and girls in their overall level of fear of bullying on the bus. A full sample regression analysis revealed significant correlations between the risk factors of bullying victimization and depression, and a child's fear of being bullied on the bus, suggesting that such fears are related to past victimization and current feelings of sadness, loneliness, and reduced energy.

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Measuring the Effects of Limited and Persistent School Bullying Victimization: Repeat Victimization, Fear, and Adaptive Behaviors

Cited by 30 publications

References 46 publications

Strategies to Combat Bullying: Parental Responses to Bullies, Bystanders, and Victims

Strategies to Combat Bullying: Parental Responses to Bullies, Bystanders, and Victims

The impact of cyberbullying on schoolchildren’s dental anxiety in Brazil: A cross‐sectional multi‐level study

The Fear of Being Bullied on the School Bus: Perceptions, Correlations, and Sex Differences

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