At what age are children most likely to be bullied at school?
At what age are children most likely to be bullied at school?
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DOI:
10.1002/ab.1027
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发表时间:
2001-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Rees, J
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作者:
Eslea, M;Rees, J
Cross-sectional questionnaire surveys of school bullying reliably find that the frequency of incidents falls with age. However, it is not clear how much of this decline is due to a real change in behaviour, and how much to children's changing definitions of what bullying is. This paper presents the results of two retrospective studies in an attempt to assess at what ages bullying is really most likely to occur. Male and female adults aged 18-55 years (n(1) = 205 and n(2) = 200) completed questionnaires about their memories of being bullied at school. Results showed that bullying was most frequently remembered from around 11-13 years of age, with incidents from earlier and later childhood being reported comparatively rarely. There were no differences between the reports of younger (18-21 years) and older (22-55 years) participants or between those of males and females. Bullying memories were also compared with memories for other aspects of childhood to assess the accuracy of these memories. It is concluded that the most memorable (and therefore perhaps the most severe) bullying is that which occurs in middle childhood. (C) 2001 Wiley Liss, Inc.