Media coverage and issue visibility: State legislative responses to school bullying

Winburn, Jonathan; Winburn, Amanda; Niemeyer, R. J.

doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2014.04.004

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“…Many of the consequences of bullying relate to the experience of emotional harm on the individual; depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation are the most cited emotional consequences of bullying (Bottino, Bottino, Regina, Correia, & Ribeiro, 2015; Moore et al, 2017). Suicidal ideation, suicidal behaviors, and completed suicide attempts related to bullying have been given increased exposure in the media (Winburn, Winburn, & Niemeyer, 2014), and a meta-analysis by Holt et al (2015) found a nearly 3-fold increase in suicidal behavior for victims of bullying. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Moore et al (2017) showed evidence for the relationship between bullying (especially bullying victimization) and mental health consequences such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation.…”

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Integrative Review of Qualitative Research on the Emotional Experience of Bullying Victimization in Youth

Hutson

2017

The Journal of School Nursing

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The emotional experience of bullying victimization in youths has been documented primarily using quantitative methods; however, qualitative methods may be better suited to examine the experience. An integrative review of the qualitative method studies addressing the emotional experience of bullying victimization was conducted. From MEDLINE, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PubMed, Education Information Resource Center, and PsycINFO, 14 English-language, peer-reviewed, qualitative studies were reviewed. Applying the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, the quality of the studies was deemed sufficient. The range of emotional experiences reported included sadness, decreased self-esteem, embarrassment, fear, suicidal thinking, anger, feeling hurt, loneliness, powerlessness, helplessness, and confusion. Overall, these results were similar to those obtained from quantitative method studies, apart from the feeling of embarrassment. This integrative review confirmed and expanded the knowledge of emotional experiences of bullying victimization.

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Integrative Review of Qualitative Research on the Emotional Experience of Bullying Victimization in Youth

Hutson

2017

The Journal of School Nursing

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“…As the issue received more media attention during the 2000s, the salience of bullying expanded beyond teachers and school administrators. While primarily still seen as an issue related to schools and school violence, bullying is now being considered more broadly as a public health issue (Puhl, Luedicke, and King 2015), a cyber and social media concern (Sabella, Patchin, and Hinduja 2013; Winburn, Niemeyer, and Reysen 2012), and a public policy problem (see e.g., Winburn, Winburn, and Niemeyer 2014).…”

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The Role of Political Ideology in Public Opinion toward Enumerated Antibullying Policies in Public Schools

Winburn

2020

Politics & Policy

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All 50 U.S. states now have some type of Antibullying law on the books, and since the initial passage of these bills, many states are now moving into the next phase of policy implementation by reforming and updating their initial legislation. While the initial adoption phase in most states was of low salience and noncontroversial for the public, there is now a more politically divisive debate surrounding the topic: enumerating the laws to protect specific groups. We discuss the use of Antibullying policies around the country along with the political debate over enumeration. Empirically, we examine public attitudes toward adding enumerated protections to existing Antibullying laws for various groups. Using a survey experiment from the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that public support for enumeration depends on both the group characteristics considered for protection and individuals' ideology. Related Articles Garner, Andrew. 2013. “Ambivalence, the Intergroup Contact Hypothesis, and Attitudes about Gay Rights.” Politics & Policy 41 (2): 241‐266. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12010 Nevbahar, Ertas. 2015. “Policy Narratives and Public Opinion Concerning Charter Schools.” Politics & Policy 43 (3): 426‐451. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12120 Smith‐Walter, Aaron, Holly L. Peterson, Michael D. Jones, Ashley Nicole, and Reynolds Marshall. 2016. “Gun Stories: How Evidence Shapes Firearm Policy in the United States.” Politics & Policy 44 (6): 1053‐1088. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12187

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“…Contributing to this narrative, the 2002 Safe Schools Initiative report on school shootings found that 71 percent of attackers felt “persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked or injured by others prior to the incident” (Vossekuil et al 2002). While the release of more information over the next decade discounted the role of bullying at Columbine (Cullen 2009), the topic nonetheless attained national salience (Winburn, Winburn, and Niemeyer 2014). Other smaller-scale school shootings, acts of peer violence, and student suicides kept the issue on the national agenda (Marr and Field 2001).…”

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“…Other smaller-scale school shootings, acts of peer violence, and student suicides kept the issue on the national agenda (Marr and Field 2001). Columbine may have been a “blurry focusing event” (Birkland and Lawrence 2009), but Georgia’s 1999 antibully statute—whose entry into law preceded Columbine by less than one month—and national media coverage of Columbine, prompted the rapid spread of state policies that either mandated or encouraged school district antibullying efforts (Winburn, Winburn, and Niemeyer 2014). Since 1999, every state, except for Montana, has adopted some statewide antibullying policy.…”

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“…Scholars in education, law, and political science have touched on different explanations for the variation in antibullying measures in the United States, but they have not yet been formally tested together in order to better understand the potential sources of this variation. The agenda-setting effects of the media were important in the timing of the initial adoption of state antibullying policies (Winburn, Winburn, and Niemeyer 2014), but there is a substantial gap in understanding the content of these statutes. This study examines the extent to which policy diffusion theory explains not only the timing of adoption but also the content of state laws.…”

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Schoolyard Politics

Mallinson

2016

State and Local Government Review

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Bullying is a vexing social and policy problem in the United States. Education scholars consistently advocate for comprehensive antibullying policies; however, the forty-nine states that have adopted antibullying programs vary in their embrace of this approach. This article addresses the question of why this is the case. First, it provides a new measure of bullying policy comprehensiveness using item response theory. Second, it examines how social and demographic characteristics, as well as neighbor-state policies, relate to this new measure. I find that a state’s support for enumerated groups and the availability of slack financial resources are the strongest explanations for variation in antibullying measures. There is also weak evidence consistent with a backlash effect, whereby states whose neighbors have more comprehensive policies adopt less comprehensive legislation. Thus, bullying policies are driven, in part, by state responsiveness to vulnerable populations but are also constrained by the realities of finite resources.

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Media coverage and issue visibility: State legislative responses to school bullying

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

Integrative Review of Qualitative Research on the Emotional Experience of Bullying Victimization in Youth

Integrative Review of Qualitative Research on the Emotional Experience of Bullying Victimization in Youth

The Role of Political Ideology in Public Opinion toward Enumerated Antibullying Policies in Public Schools

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