Beyond bullying: Aggravating elements of peer victimization episodes.

Beyond bullying: Aggravating elements of peer victimization episodes.

This study sought to identify features of peer victimization that aggravate negative outcomes in children. The features that were assessed include "power imbalance," a commonly used criterion in defining bullying, and 5 other characteristics: injury, weapon involvement, Internet involvement, sexual content, and bias content. Three outcomes were assessed: level of fear, missing school, and traum...

Let's prevent peer victimization, not just bullying.

This commentary argues that it is time to make bullying less of the central concept in efforts to combat peer victimization. Bullying has been a pivotal concept in the mobilization of effort in recent years to create safe environments for children. It as highlighted a phenomenon that seems to have universal resonance and is recognized internationally (Jimerson, Swearer, Espelage, 2010). Prevale...

Perceptions and correlates of peer-victimization and bullying.

BACKGROUND The experiences of peer-victimization and bullying are often treated empirically as though they are conceptually indistinct. Both involve repeated aggression, but definitions of bullying additionally emphasize the importance of aggressor intent and imbalance of power between the aggressor and the victim (Olweus, 1978; Whitney & Smith, 1993). AIMS The present study aimed to examine ...

A Behaviorally Specific, Empirical Alternative to Bullying: Aggravated Peer Victimization.

PURPOSE To test a behaviorally specific measure of serious peer victimization, called aggravated peer victimization (APV), using empirically derived aggravating elements of episodes (injury, weapon, bias content, sexual content, multiple perpetrators, and multiple contexts) and compare this measure with the conventional Olweus bullying (OB) measure, which uses repetition and power imbalance as ...

Parent/Child Concordance about Bullying Involvement and Family Characteristics Related to Bullying and Peer Victimization