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Is all bullying the same?

BACKGROUND: We ask whether verbal abuse, threats of violence and physical assault among Canadian youth have the same determinants and whether these determinants are the same for boys and girls. If these are different, the catch-all term “bullying” may mis-specify analysis of what are really differen...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Lihui, Osberg, Lars, Phipps, Shelley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24991409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-3258-72-19
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description BACKGROUND: We ask whether verbal abuse, threats of violence and physical assault among Canadian youth have the same determinants and whether these determinants are the same for boys and girls. If these are different, the catch-all term “bullying” may mis-specify analysis of what are really different types of behavior. METHODS: We analyze five cohorts of Canadian youth aged 12-15 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). There are 11475 observations in total. Pearson’s correlation coefficients and six different multivariate strategies are used. RESULTS: There are many faces to bullying, in terms of its form and relative frequencies for boys versus girls. Although some characteristics of an adolescent are strong predictors of being subject to more than one type of bullying, some other characteristics are only correlated with specific types of bullying. CONCLUSIONS: The many faces of bullying, and their correlation with different factors, imply different policy interventions may be needed to address each issue effectively.
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spelling pubmed-40772332014-07-02 Is all bullying the same? Zhang, Lihui Osberg, Lars Phipps, Shelley Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: We ask whether verbal abuse, threats of violence and physical assault among Canadian youth have the same determinants and whether these determinants are the same for boys and girls. If these are different, the catch-all term “bullying” may mis-specify analysis of what are really different types of behavior. METHODS: We analyze five cohorts of Canadian youth aged 12-15 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). There are 11475 observations in total. Pearson’s correlation coefficients and six different multivariate strategies are used. RESULTS: There are many faces to bullying, in terms of its form and relative frequencies for boys versus girls. Although some characteristics of an adolescent are strong predictors of being subject to more than one type of bullying, some other characteristics are only correlated with specific types of bullying. CONCLUSIONS: The many faces of bullying, and their correlation with different factors, imply different policy interventions may be needed to address each issue effectively. BioMed Central 2014-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4077233/ /pubmed/24991409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-3258-72-19 Text en Copyright © 2014 Zhang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077233/
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