Prevalence and correlates of bullying victimisation and perpetration in a nationally representative sample of Australian youth

Thomas, Hannah J.; Connor, Jason P.; Lawrence, David; Hafekost, Jennifer; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Scott, James G.

doi:10.1177/0004867417707819

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“…As in adolescence, the experience of frequent bullying in childhood relates to poorer mental health. Prior studies with youth (11 + years) have shown that frequent bullying is associated with mental health problems (Bond et al., ; Due et al., ; Ford et al., ; Hodges et al., ; Klomek et al., ; Lien et al., ; Thomas et al., ; Ttofi et al., ; Undheim & Sund, ). The current results with younger children corroborate this concern.…”

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“…Findings of the present study also had interesting divergence from existing knowledge in the field. With older youth, international and Australian research has described a rate of bullying of around 13% (Craig et al., ; Forero et al., ; Rigby & Johnson, ; Thomas et al., ). With younger children, in the present study the rate of frequent bullying was much higher at 29%.…”

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“…'s study did not include Australia. However, research in Australia also indicates that bullying in adolescence is a real concern (Bond, Carlin, Thomas, Rubin, & Patton, ; Cross et al., ; Forero, McLellan, Rissel, & Bauman, ; Hemphill et al., ; Rigby & Johnson, ; Thomas et al., ). To illustrate, Forero et al.…”

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“…Thomas et al. () similarly reported a 12‐month prevalence for bullying victimisation of 13% in the Second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health ( N = 2967 age 11–17 years).…”

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Bullying, mental health and friendship in Australian primary school children

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Mundy

Stokes

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Child Adoles Ment Health

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Background Frequent bullying predicts adolescent mental health problems, particularly depression. This population‐based study with young Australian primary school children aimed to determine the frequency and mental health correlates of bullying, and whether friendship could be protective. Method Participants were a population‐based sample of 1221 children aged 8–9 years attending 43 primary schools in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Children were taking part in the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study. Children completed online questionnaires at school to measure peer relations and emotional well‐being. Parents reported on their child's mental health in questionnaires sent to the home. Results One in three children (29.2%) reported experiencing frequent bullying, defined as at least once a week. This included physical bullying alone (13.8%), verbal bullying alone (22.7%) and the combination (7.4%). Children who reported being frequently bullied self‐reported higher internalising symptoms compared with children who did not report frequent bullying (M (SD) 1.6 (0.9) vs. 1.1 (0.8), p < .001). This difference was confirmed by parents' reports of their child's internalising symptoms (M (SD) 2.4 (2.3) vs. 2.1 (2.0), p = .026, respectively). Amongst children who reported frequent bullying, those with a group of friends had better emotional well‐being. Conclusions A substantial proportion of children report experiencing bullying on a weekly basis early in primary school. Given the prevalence of bullying in primary school and its relationship to children's mental health, we recommend effective school‐wide antibullying programmes. Further research can explore whether intervention to foster a group of friends around bullied children can improve their emotional well‐being.

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“…Consider still the transgenerational (epigenetic) effects of stress and mental illness [56], and beyond brain and behavior disorders, it is almost impossible to calculate the societal burden of small-and large-scale aggression and incivility [57][58][59]. In a vicious cycle, both victim and perpetrator are on a trajectory to depression, isolation, and ill-health [60][61][62].…”

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Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch

Prescott

Logan

2017

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Advances in science have illuminated the role of the "ecological theatre"-the total living environment-in human health. In a rapidly changing epoch known as the anthropocene, microbiome science is identifying functional connections between all life, both seen and unseen. Rather than an easily identifiable era appearing in rock strata, the anthropocene is more of a diagnostic syndrome, a set of signs and symptoms including climate change, gross biodiversity losses, environmental degradation, and an epidemic of non-communicable diseases. The syndrome is intertwined with politics, economics, public policies (or lack thereof), social values, and a global push of calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods and beverages. The healing of anthropocene syndrome is the grand challenge of humanity. Expanding on the "Mars Can Wait" argument of Geoffrey Goodman, et al., we focus on the urgency with which health promotion must be prioritized here on Earth. We revive Jonas Salk's biophilosophy: a call to action for collaboration between biologists, humanists, and scholars of all stripes. From this perspective, lines of distinction between personal, public, and planetary health are removed. We also describe the symbiocene: the possibility of a new epoch in which mutualism will be considered imperative. If society asks the right questions, a transition to the symbiocene is possible; the "stratigraphical" mark of the new epoch will be found in a repudiation of authoritarianism, and the promotion of empathy, cultural competency, emotional intelligence, and commitment to optimism, tolerance, and the facilitation of the WHO definition of health, i.e., the fulfillment of human potential.

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Origins of School Bullying Research

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Sween²

2021

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Bullying

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Prevalence and correlates of bullying victimisation and perpetration in a nationally representative sample of Australian youth

Cited by 86 publications

References 38 publications

Bullying, mental health and friendship in Australian primary school children

Bullying, mental health and friendship in Australian primary school children

Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch

Origins of School Bullying Research

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