The association of sexual minority status and bullying victimization is modified by sex and grade: findings from a nationally representative sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexual minority status is associated with face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying victimization. However, limited studies have investigated whether such a relationship differs by sex or grade in a nationally representative sample.

Methods

We concatenated the national high school data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) chronologically from 2015 to 2019, resulting in a sample of 32,542 high school students. We constructed models with the interaction term between sexual minority status and biological sex assigned at birth to test the effect modification by sex on both the multiplicative and additive scales. A similar method was used to test the effect modification by grade.

Results

Among heterosexual students, females had a higher odds of

SUBMITTER: Lu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10874033 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature