This study investigated the relations between student perceptions of support and student willingness to seek help for bullying and threats of violence in a sample of 7318 ninth-grade students from 291 high schools who participated in the Virginia High School Safety Study. Hierarchical linear modeling indicated that students who perceived their teachers and other school staff to be supportive we...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study has been to assess the associations between psychological distress and exposure to workplace bullying, taking into account possible influence of adverse psychosocial job characteristics and occupational burnout in a sample of Kaunas (Lithuania) teachers. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample included 517 teachers from 13 secondary schools and was conducte...

Reports from schoolchildren across a range of countries indicate that interventions by teachers in cases of bullying are commonly unsuccessful, especially with older students. This article provides a brief description and critical examination of six major intervention strategies employed in schools and points to the need for better training of teachers in this area and the development of judgem...

BACKGROUND Bullying is a major problem worldwide and Chile is no exception. Bullying is defined as a systematic aggressive behavior against a victim who cannot defend him or herself. Victims suffer social isolation and psychological maladjustment, while bullies have a higher risk for conduct problems and substance use disorders. These problems appear to last over time. The KiVa antibullying pro...

This paper explores Japanese patterns of school bullying and Ijime (insidious acts of social manipulation and group bullying of weaker peers) in the context of cross-national comparison. Following a brief overview of Japan’s public debate on Ijime, we discuss the nature of Japanese classrooms, review efforts to define school bullying from both an international and an indigenous perspective, ass...

Childhood bullying has potentially serious implications for bullies and their targets. Bullying involves a pattern of repeated aggression, a deliberate intent to harm or disturb a victim despite the victim's apparent distress, and a real or perceived imbalance of power. Bullying can lead to serious academic, social, emotional, and legal problems. Studies of successful antibullying programs sugg...

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...

Teachers’ perceptions are a poignant factor in addressing bullying. Bullying within K-12 institutions has been major concern for schools and teachers the United States around world. The utmost about this topic is to address teachers’ bullying how these can be used prevention reduction initiatives community. study A qualitative case study: To examine of bullying-related situations institutions. ...

crime. Where children are involved, it is typically as victims of adult perpetrators. But clearly children are sometimes the victims of other children. When this occurs, it is often described as ‘bullying’ and there is usually no ‘crime’ as such recognised. For countless years peer victimisation or ‘bullying’, as we shall call it, was regarded as part and parcel of ‘going to school’, largely u...