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Predicting School Bullying Victimization: Focusing on Individual and School Environmental/Security Factors

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Bullying behavior continues to be a salient social and health-related issue of importance to educators, criminal justice practitioners, and academicians across the country. While discourse on school bullying is abundant, previous studies are limited in explaining the predictive effect of factors such as individual/demographic variables, school environmental variables, and school antibullying preventive measures. Using a nationally representative sample of 12,987 private and public school students in the United States, the current study examines school safety measures and students’ perceptions about school environments (or climate), especially school rules and punishment. Findings reveal that the variables of security guards, fairness and awareness of school rules, gangs and guns at school, students misbehaving, and teachers’ punishment of students were statistically significant predictors of bullying victimization. Implications of these findings for school anti-bullying programs as well as directions for future research are discussed.

Source: Journal of Criminology

DOI: 10.1155/2013/401301

Authors: Seokjin Jeong, Dae-Hoon Kwak, Byongook Moon, Claudia San Miguel

Institutions: The University of Texas at Arlington, Illinois State University, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M International University

Language: English

Topic: Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1984150411