Temporal Trends in Bullying Victimization Among Adolescents Aged 12-15 Years From 29 Countries: A Global Perspective.
Por:
Smith L, López Sánchez GF, Haro JM, Alghamdi AA, Pizzol D, Tully MA, Hans Oh, Gibson P, Keyes H, Butler L, Barnett Y, Shin JI and Koyanagi A
Publicada:
1 sep 2023
Ahead of Print:
29 jun 2023
Resumen:
PURPOSE: Bullying victimization among adolescents is a major public health concern. However, multicountry studies investigating temporal trends of bullying victimization among adolescents are scarce, especially from a global perspective. Thus, we aimed to examine the temporal trends of bullying victimization among school-going adolescents between 2003 and 2017 in 29 countries from Africa (n = 5), Asia (n = 18), and the Americas (n = 6). METHODS: Data on 191,228 students aged 12-15 years [mean (standard deviation) age 13.7 (1.0) years; 48.9% boys] who participated in the Global School-based Student Health Survey were analyzed. Bullying victimization was based on self-report and referred to being bullied at least once in the past 30 days. The prevalence (95% confidence interval) of bullying victimization was calculated for each survey. Crude linear trends in bullying victimization were examined by linear regression models. RESULTS: The mean prevalence of bullying victimization across all surveys was 39.4%. There was a large variation in the trends of bullying victimization across countries with a significant increasing and decreasing trend being observed in 6 and 13 countries, respectively. Myanmar, Egypt, and the Philippines showed the sharpest increase. The decrease was modest in most countries which showed a decreasing trend. The remaining countries showed stable trends (n = 10) but some countries such as Seychelles showed consistently high prevalence over time (i.e., = 50%). DISCUSSION: Decreasing trends of bullying victimization were more common than increasing or stable trends in our study including adolescents from 29 countries. However, a high prevalence of bullying was observed in most countries, and thus, further global efforts to combat bullying victimization are necessary.
Filiaciones:
Smith L:
Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
López Sánchez GF:
Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Electronic address:
Haro JM:
Psychology Department, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Research and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, CIBERSAM, ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
Alghamdi AA:
Psychology Department, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Pizzol D:
Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Khartoum, Sudan
Tully MA:
School of Medicine, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Hans Oh:
Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Gibson P:
Faculty of Education and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Keyes H:
School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Butler L:
Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Barnett Y:
Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Shin JI:
Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Koyanagi A:
ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain
Research and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, CIBERSAM, ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
Open Access
|