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Sex Differences in Adolescent Bullying Behaviours

Sandra Feijóo, James O’Higgins‐Norman, Mairéad Foody, Rafael Pichel, Teresa Braña Tobío, Jesús Varela Mallou, Antonio Rial Boubeta

Psychosocial Intervention · 2021

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Summary

In recent decades there has been a progressive increase in concern and research into the problems of peer aggression, both in the educational setting and more recently, online. The present study sought to explore sex differences in traditional bullying and cyberbullying, since current literature has not reached a consensus in how bullying involvement could be moderated by sex. The sample consisted of 3,174 adolescents aged 12-17 years old who completed a paper survey which included the European Bullying Intervention Project Questionnaire and the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire. The main results found no differences in cyberbullying rates for boys and girls. In the case of bullying, there were more bully-victims among the boys, but no differences were found in the

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.5093/pi2021a1
Catalogue ID
SNmohbawvs-e4zkx7
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