The role of family and school-level factors in bullying and cyberbullying: a cross-sectional study. Bevilacqua, L., Shackleton, N., Hale, D., Allen, E., Bond, L., Christie, D., Elbourne, D., Fitzgerald-Yau, N., Fletcher, A., Jones, R., Miners, A., Scott, S., Wiggins, M., Bonell, C., & Viner, R. M. BMC Pediatrics, 17(1):160, December, 2017.
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Abstract Background Bullying and cyberbullying are common phenomena in schools. These negative behaviours can have a significant impact on the health and particularly mental health of those involved in such behaviours, both as victims and as bullies. This UK study aims to investigate student-level and school-level characteristics of those who become involved in bullying and cyberbullying behaviours as victims or perpetrators. Methods We used data from 6667 Year 7 students from the baseline survey of a cluster randomized trial in 40 English schools to investigate the associations between individual-level and school-level variables with bullying victimization, cyberbullying perpetration, and cyberbullying victimization. We ran multilevel models to examine associations of bullying outcomes with individual-level variables and school-level variables. Results In multilevel models, at the school level, school type and school quality measures were associated with bullying risk: students in voluntary-aided schools were less likely to report bullying victimization (0.6 (0.4, 0.9) p  = 0.008), and those in community (3.9 (1.5, 10.5) p  = 0.007) and foundation (4.0 (1.6, 9.9) p  = 0.003) schools were more likely to report being perpetrators of cyberbullying than students in mainstream academies. A school quality rating of “Good” was associated with greater reported bullying victimization (1.3 (1.02, 1.5) p  = 0.03) compared to ratings of “Outstanding.” Conclusions Bullying victimization and cyberbullying prevalence vary across school type and school quality, supporting the hypothesis that organisational/management factors within the school may have an impact on students’ behaviour. These findings will inform future longitudinal research investigating which school factors and processes promote or prevent bullying and cyberbullying behaviours. Trial registration Trial ID: ISRCTN10751359 Registered: 11/03/2014 (retrospectively registered).
@article{bevilacqua_role_2017,
	title = {The role of family and school-level factors in bullying and cyberbullying: a cross-sectional study},
	volume = {17},
	issn = {1471-2431},
	shorttitle = {The role of family and school-level factors in bullying and cyberbullying},
	url = {https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887-017-0907-8},
	doi = {10.1186/s12887-017-0907-8},
	abstract = {Abstract
            
              Background
              Bullying and cyberbullying are common phenomena in schools. These negative behaviours can have a significant impact on the health and particularly mental health of those involved in such behaviours, both as victims and as bullies. This UK study aims to investigate student-level and school-level characteristics of those who become involved in bullying and cyberbullying behaviours as victims or perpetrators.
            
            
              Methods
              We used data from 6667 Year 7 students from the baseline survey of a cluster randomized trial in 40 English schools to investigate the associations between individual-level and school-level variables with bullying victimization, cyberbullying perpetration, and cyberbullying victimization. We ran multilevel models to examine associations of bullying outcomes with individual-level variables and school-level variables.
            
            
              Results
              
                In multilevel models, at the school level, school type and school quality measures were associated with bullying risk: students in voluntary-aided schools were less likely to report bullying victimization (0.6 (0.4, 0.9)
                p
                 = 0.008), and those in community (3.9 (1.5, 10.5)
                p
                 = 0.007) and foundation (4.0 (1.6, 9.9)
                p
                 = 0.003) schools were more likely to report being perpetrators of cyberbullying than students in mainstream academies. A school quality rating of “Good” was associated with greater reported bullying victimization (1.3 (1.02, 1.5)
                p
                 = 0.03) compared to ratings of “Outstanding.”
              
            
            
              Conclusions
              Bullying victimization and cyberbullying prevalence vary across school type and school quality, supporting the hypothesis that organisational/management factors within the school may have an impact on students’ behaviour. These findings will inform future longitudinal research investigating which school factors and processes promote or prevent bullying and cyberbullying behaviours.
            
            
              Trial registration
              
                Trial ID:
                ISRCTN10751359
                Registered: 11/03/2014 (retrospectively registered).},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2022-02-28},
	journal = {BMC Pediatrics},
	author = {Bevilacqua, Leonardo and Shackleton, Nichola and Hale, Daniel and Allen, Elizabeth and Bond, Lyndal and Christie, Deborah and Elbourne, Diana and Fitzgerald-Yau, Natasha and Fletcher, Adam and Jones, Rebecca and Miners, Alec and Scott, Stephen and Wiggins, Meg and Bonell, Chris and Viner, Russell M.},
	month = dec,
	year = {2017},
	keywords = {Child, Family},
	pages = {160},
}

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