A cross-national profile of bullying and victimization among adolescents in 40 countries

Wendy Craig; Yossi Harel-Fisch; Haya Fogel-Grinvald; Suzanne Dostaler; Jorn Hetland; Bruce Simons-Morton; Michal Molcho; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Mary Overpeck; Pernille Due; William Pickett; Joanna Mazur; Damien Favresse; Alain Leveque; Will Pickett; Katrin Aasvee; Dora Varnai; Yossi Harel; Liat Korn; Anita Villerusa; Pilar Ramos Valverde; Peter Scheidt; Will Boyce; Bjorn Holstein; Wilma Vollebergh; Oddrun Samdal; Winfried van der Sluijs; Zuzana Katreniakova; Tonja Nansel

doi:10.1007/s00038-009-5413-9

A cross-national profile of bullying and victimization among adolescents in 40 countries

Wendy Craig
, Yossi Harel-Fisch
, Haya Fogel-Grinvald
, Suzanne Dostaler
, Jorn Hetland
, Bruce Simons-Morton
, Michal Molcho
, Margarida Gaspar de Matos
, Mary Overpeck
, Pernille Due
, William Pickett
, Joanna Mazur
, Damien Favresse
, Alain Leveque
, Will Pickett
, Katrin Aasvee
, Dora Varnai
, Yossi Harel
, Liat Korn
, Anita Villerusa

Pilar Ramos Valverde, Peter Scheidt, Will Boyce, Bjorn Holstein, Wilma Vollebergh, Oddrun Samdal, Winfried van der Sluijs, Zuzana Katreniakova, Tonja Nansel

Queen's University Kingston
Bar-Ilan University
University of Bergen
National Institutes of Health
University of Galway
University of Lisbon
National Center for Child Death Review
University of Southern Denmark

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Abstract

Objectives: (1) To compare the prevalence of bullying and victimization among boys and girls and by age in 40 countries. (2) In 6 countries, to compare rates of direct physical, direct verbal, and indirect bullying by gender, age, and country. Methods: Cross-sectional self-report surveys including items on bullying and being bullied were obtained from nationally representative samples of 11, 13 and 15 year old school children in 40 countries, N = 202,056. Six countries (N = 29,127 students) included questions about specific types of bullying (e. g., direct physical, direct verbal, indirect). Results: Exposure to bullying varied across countries, with estimates ranging from 8.6% to 45.2% among boys, and from 4.8% to 35.8% among girls. Adolescents in Baltic countries reported higher rates of bullying and victimization, whereas northern European countries reported the lowest prevalence. Boys reported higher rates of bullying in all countries. Rates of victimization were higher for girls in 29 of 40 countries. Rates of victimization decreased by age in 30 of 40 (boys) and 25 of 39 (girls) countries. Conclusion: There are lessons to be learned from the current research conducted in countries where the prevalence is low that could be adapted for use in countries with higher prevalence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S216-S224
Journal	International Journal of Public Health
Volume	54
Issue number	SUPPL. 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-009-5413-9
State	Published - 2009

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Funding Information:
HBSC is an international study carried out in collaboration with WHO/EURO. The international coordinator of the 2001–2002 and 2005–2006 study was Candace Currie, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and the data bank manager was Oddrun Samdal, University of Bergen, Norway. A complete list of the participating researchers can be found on the HBSC website (www.HBSC.org). This research was supported in part by the intramural program of the NICHD (Contract # N01-HD-5-3401).

Funding

HBSC is an international study carried out in collaboration with WHO/EURO. The international coordinator of the 2001–2002 and 2005–2006 study was Candace Currie, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and the data bank manager was Oddrun Samdal, University of Bergen, Norway. A complete list of the participating researchers can be found on the HBSC website (www.HBSC.org). This research was supported in part by the intramural program of the NICHD (Contract # N01-HD-5-3401).

Funders	Funder number
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	ZIAHD002525
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	N01-HD-5-3401

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Bullying
Country comparison
Prevalence rates
Victimization

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Craig, W., Harel-Fisch, Y., Fogel-Grinvald, H., Dostaler, S., Hetland, J., Simons-Morton, B., Molcho, M., de Matos, M. G., Overpeck, M., Due, P., Pickett, W., Mazur, J., Favresse, D., Leveque, A., Pickett, W., Aasvee, K., Varnai, D., Harel, Y., Korn, L., ... Nansel, T. (2009). A cross-national profile of bullying and victimization among adolescents in 40 countries. International Journal of Public Health, 54(SUPPL. 2), S216-S224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-009-5413-9

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