Overcoming Limitations in Peer-Victimization Research That Impede Successful Intervention: Challenges and New Directions.

ABSTRACT: Peer victimization at school is a worldwide problem with profound implications for victims, bullies, and whole-school communities. Yet the 50-year quest to solve the problem has produced mostly disappointing results. A critical examination of current research reveals both pivotal limitations and potential solutions. Solutions include introducing psychometrically sound measures to assess the parallel components of bullying and victimization, analyzing cross-national data sets, and embracing a social-ecological perspective emphasizing the motivation of bullies, importance of bystanders, pro-defending and antibullying attitudes, classroom climate, and a multilevel perspective. These solutions have been integrated into a series of recent interventions. Teachers can be professionally trained to

SUBMITTER: Marsh HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10336717 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature