Structural Determinants of Youth Bullying and Fighting in 79 Countries

A prática de bullying entre escolares brasileiros e fatores associados, Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar 2015

“…Recently, a major epidemiological survey of 79 countries showed that about 30% of all students report having been the victim of bullying in schools 6 . This survey also found reports that 10.7% of boys and 2.7% of girls reported four or more incidents of physical aggression in the year preceding the survey 6 .…”

“…Recently, a major epidemiological survey of 79 countries showed that about 30% of all students report having been the victim of bullying in schools 6 . This survey also found reports that 10.7% of boys and 2.7% of girls reported four or more incidents of physical aggression in the year preceding the survey 6 . In the US, a country with a long history of bullying, the 2009 Massachusetts Youth Health Survey showed that 8.4% of a sample of 2,948 High School students were guilty of some form of aggression against their schoolmates 7 .…”

Bullying in schools and its relation with depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation in adolescents

“…1,2 Bullying victimization reported approximately 30% of adolescents in 79 countries. 3 While there are many reasons why young people are pushing violence 4,5 psychiatric disorders are causally or eventually related to bullying. 6 On the other hand, it is inevitable that some psychiatric symptoms may be seen in the individuals who have exposed to bullying.…”

Bullies, Victims and Provocative Victims in Context: Discriminant Factors in a Portuguese Adolescent Sample

“…However, face to the dimension and extension of this phenomenon, and if we consider that approximately three in each ten youths in school age (Chester et al, 2015;Elgar et al, 2015) are involved in bullying behaviors, we realize that much work is still to be developed.…”

“…The Health Behavior in School-aged Children study (HBSC) of the World Health Organization (WHO), conducted with 6026 students from 6 th , 8 th and 10 th grade (M=13.77 years), revealed that approximately 30% of the participants reported being bullying victims (Chester et al, 2015;Elgar et al, 2015). In Portugal, one of the participant countries of the study, the situation is corroborated: 34% of the youths involved in the study (N=6026; M =13.77 years), reported being provoked at least once a week in the last two months, and 4.7% reported the same situation several times a week (Matos, Simões, Camacho, Reis & Equipa Aventura Social, 2015).…”