The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between involvement in bullying behaviors and school, family, and peer factors. Health Behavior in School Age Children survey questionnaire was used. Of the students surveyed, 20% were both bully and victim, 11% were bully, and 21% were victim. Being male, poor parental support, and poor monitoring by the father were found to be risk factor...

Harassment and bullying among 186 students with intellectual disabilities, ages 12 to 21 years, in special education schools were examined. The differences between bullies and victims in terms of social adjustment and social skills were investigated. No prototypes characterizing differences in social skills were found between the three subgroups: victim, bully, and victim-bully. However, bullie...

This study examined peer intervention in bullying using naturalistic observations on school playgrounds. The sample comprised 58 children (37 boys and 21 girls) in Grades 1 to 6 who were observed to intervene in bullying. Peers were present during 88% of bullying episodes and intervened in 19%. In 47% of the episodes, peers intervened aggressively. Interventions directed toward the bully were m...

Leader election is an important problem in distributed computing. Garcia-Molina's Bully Algorithm is a classic solution to leader election in synchronous systems with crash failures. This paper shows that the Bully Algorithm can be easily adapted for use in asynchronous systems. First, we re-write the Bully Algorithm to use a failure detector, instead of explicit time-outs; this yields a modula...

Bullying is a social phenomenon that impacts a large number of children and young people, worldwide. This study aimed to longitudinally examine the development of bullying and victimization in Chinese students in grades 4, 5, and 6. We used latent class analysis to empirically identify groups of youth with different bullying and victimization patterns, and then used latent transition analysis t...

objective: bullying and peer victimization in school are serious concerns for students, parents, psychologists, and school officials around the world. this descriptive study examined bullying/victimization among iranian students and the relationship between bullying and trauma symptoms. methods: this study was a cross-sectional research and descriptive correlative study. descriptive statistics ...

Abstract The effectiveness and program mechanisms of a whole-school anti-bullying that builds on the socio-ecological framework were investigated by applying person-oriented methods data analyses. A longitudinal cluster randomized control study was utilized comprising 1377 adolescents (48.5% girls, M age = 11.7) who participated in 1-year whole school implemented 13 schools 665 (45.2% 11.6) att...