This study investigated the prospective association between supervisor leadership styles and workplace bullying. Altogether 404 civil servants from a local government in Japan completed baseline and follow-up surveys. The leadership variables and exposure to bullying were measured by Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised, respectively. The prevalence of wo...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to examine longitudinally whether workplace bullying was associated with subsequent psychotropic medication among women and men. DESIGN A cohort study. SETTING Helsinki, Finland. PARTICIPANTS Employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland (n=6606, 80% women), 40-60 years at baseline in 2000-2002, and a register-based follow-up on medication. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME...

Why do some countries, regions and schools have more bullying than others? What socio-economic, socio-political and other larger contextual factors predict school bullying? These open questions inspired this study with 53.316 5th- and 9th-grade students (5% of the national student population in these grades), from 1,000 schools in Colombia. Students completed a national test of citizenship comp...

AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EFFECTS OF CYBER-BULLYING: DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A CYBER-BULLYINGMODERATOR/MEDIATOR MODELby CRYSTAL LIN JOHNSONMay 2011 Advisor: Dr. Terry KinneyMajor: Communication StudiesDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyThis study examined cyber-bullying as a social transgression and the potentially negativeeffects it has on indi...

Accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and evaluation. Limitations to many currently available self-report measures of bullying victimization include a lack of psychometric information, use of the emotionally laden term "bullying" in definition-first approaches to self-report surveys, and not assessing all components of the definition of bullying (chronicity, inte...

School violence is a widespread and serious social problem. Much of school violence involves bullying, a practice found in school settings around the world. The effects of bullying are traumatic and long lasting. New technology has engendered a new form of bullying: cyberbullying. This article describes various forms of bullying (verbal, physical, relational, and cyber) and offers several anti-...

PURPOSE The study compared levels of depression among bullies, victims, and bully-victims of traditional (physical, verbal, and relational) and cyber bullying that is a relatively new form of bullying. The study also examined the association between depression and frequency of involvement in each form of bullying. METHODS A U.S. nationally representative sample of students in grades 6-10 (N =...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between bullying behavior and depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts among adolescents. METHOD A self-report survey was completed by 9th- through 12th-grade students (n = 2342) in six New York State high schools from 2002 through 2004. Regression analyses were conducted to examine the association between being victimized and bullying others wit...

The prevalence of direct and relational bullying and their differential relationship to behaviour problems in young primary school children was investigated. Individual interviews were conducted with 1982 children aged 6 9 years (mean age 7.6 years) and 1639 parents completed the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire regarding behaviour problems of their children. Of the 1639 children with bo...

OBJECTIVE This study had two main goals: to examine the structure of co-occurring peer bullying experiences among adolescents in South Korea from the perspective of victims and to determine the effects of bullying on suicidal behavior, including suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, among adolescents. METHOD This study used data gathered from 4,410 treatment-seeking adolescents at their ini...