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1 - Research on bullying in schools in European countries

from Part I - Social awareness and research on bullying and cyberbullying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Peter K. Smith
Affiliation:
Goldsmiths, University of London
Keumjoo Kwak
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
Yuichi Toda
Affiliation:
Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan
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One origin of school bullying research is in western Europe, and specifically in Scandinavia. This chapter reviews how this research programme originated, the early work, and how it spread to the U.K. and to other European countries during the 1990s and 2000s. It discusses issues around the definition (of ‘mobbning’, ‘bullying’, and other terms used), of types of bullying (the inclusion of relational bullying in the later 1980s, and cyberbullying in the 2000s), the main types of study done, and some of the main research findings on prevalence (including the HBSC surveys and EDU Kids Online survey), findings from a recent survey in Northern Ireland, types of bullying, age and gender differences, bullying and disability, who bullies who, place and duration of bullying, attitudes to victims, coping strategies and telling someone about bullying. It discusses individual and personality factors, peer group factors, family factors, class and school factors; and consequences of involvement in bullying.

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