The article reports a study of workplace bullying in community nurses in an NHS trust. The aims were to determine the prevalence of bullying, to examine the association between bullying and occupational health outcomes, and to investigate whether support at work could moderate the effects of bullying. Forty-four percent of nurses reported experiencing one or more types of bullying in the previo...

Bullying can have significant and long term adverse eVects on the health and behaviour of children. Not only does the victim suVer psychological and possibly physical damage, but the persistent bullies are at risk of continuing their aggressive, antisocial behaviour. Approximately one third of British schoolchildren report bullying. Achieving a reduction in the rate of bullying in schools would...

INTRODUCTION This research sought to extend knowledge about bystanders in bullying situations with a focus on the motivations that lead them to different responses. The 2 primary goals of this study were to investigate the reasons for children's decisions to help or not to help a victim when witnessing bullying, and to generate a grounded theory (or conceptual framework) of bystander motivation...

BACKGROUND Attitudes towards bullying at school are influential in understanding and preventing bullying behaviour but they should be measured with reference to the particular conditions under which bullying takes place. AIMS To establish how far positive and negative judgments of bullying and victims and blaming of the victim vary according to the gender of observers, gender of bullies and o...

Using empathic virtual agents for Personal and Social Education is a powerful and immersive way to sensitise students for the problems and dangers related to persistent aggressive behaviour among students, also known as bullying. The work reported here relates to the evaluation of applying such agents in schools in the UK, Portugal, and Germany as well as to consequences that can be drawn from ...

CONTEXT Although violence among US youth is a current major concern, bullying is infrequently addressed and no national data on the prevalence of bullying are available. OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of bullying behaviors among US youth and to determine the association of bullying and being bullied with indicators of psychosocial adjustment, including problem behavior, school adjustmen...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate school bullying among public high school students in Turkey. METHOD This study used a survey to examine different aspects of bullying in schools. The participants (N = 692) were students chosen from five state high schools in Ankara in the 2000-2001 academic year. A self-administered questionnaire of 28 single or multiple-choice questions...

This special i,sue nn bullying and victimization in Schooll',I'rc!l%gr Rel'ieu' highlights current research elTol1:> in American schools on bullying and peer victimization. and how this research can inform prevention and intervention planning. nlis introductory article provides a brief overview of several major insights gained over the last decade from research on bullying in school-aged youth ...

In the context of workplace bullying, the ability to defend refers to whether or not a target feels able to deal with those negative behaviors that typically constitute bullying. The aim of this study was to determine whether the perceived ability to defend oneself moderates the association between exposure to bullying behaviors at work and symptoms of anxiety as predicted by the definition of ...

BACKGROUND Cyberbullying describes bullying using mobile phones and the internet. Most previous studies have focused on the prevalence of text message and email bullying. METHODS Two surveys with pupils aged 11-16 years: (1) 92 pupils from 14 schools, supplemented by focus groups; (2) 533 pupils from 5 schools, to assess the generalisability of findings from the first study, and investigate r...