School Bullying in Different Countries: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Short-Term Outcomes

Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health of Adolescents Involved in School Bullying and Homophobic Verbal Content Bullying

“…Furthermore, differences in HRQoL and mental health, based on the role in which the adolescent was involved, were also analyzed. Considering the obtained results, prevalence of bullying is in accordance to previous research conducted in Spanish samples [3,4,5]. However, in the case of homophobic verbal content bullying, as far as we know, this is one of the first studies conducted in Spain assessing the prevalence of this explicit type of bullying through a specific evaluation instrument originally designed to the analysis of this type of harassment for all individuals, independently of the sexual orientation.…”

“…Differences in the prevalence between studies could be based on the differential age range of the sample considered and the employed instruments. In this regard, it has been demonstrated that bullying prevalence increases as age of adolescents increases, being more prevalent in advanced school stages [2,3]. Furthermore, in the present research it has been employed a specific questionnaire originally designed for the homophobic verbal content bullying, probably being more reliable for the analysis of this type of bullying.…”

“…Bullying is defined as aggressive, unjustified, intentional and persistent behavior, characterized by the power imbalance between victim and aggressor [1,2] with negative psychological and social consequences for the lives of children and adolescents [3]. Its prevalence varies in different studies between 10 and 50% in adolescents [3,4,5].…”

“…Bullying is defined as aggressive, unjustified, intentional and persistent behavior, characterized by the power imbalance between victim and aggressor [1,2] with negative psychological and social consequences for the lives of children and adolescents [3]. Its prevalence varies in different studies between 10 and 50% in adolescents [3,4,5]. In terms of sex differences in victimization, various investigations attribute greater protagonism to boys [6,7]; in contrast, other works highlight that females are more frequently victims of bullying than males [8,9], whereas other studies find no sex differences in victimization [10,11].…”

Exploring the Dimensional Structure of Bullying Victimization Among Primary and Lower-Secondary School Students: Is One Factor Enough, or Do We Need More?

“…In-school bullying victimization refers to the continued, intentional aggression of a victim who is lower in power when compared to the aggressor, i.e., the bully (Olweus, 1996). Prevalence of bullying victimization among school-aged individuals is high: Cross-national studies show a prevalence rate ranging from to as low as 10% to as high as 30% of children and adolescents which reports being victim of some of form of bullying behavior at school (e.g., Eslea et al, 2004; Craig et al, 2009; Chester et al, 2015; for a review, see Zych et al, 2017).…”