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Does the content of anti-bullying policies inform us about the prevalence of direct and relational bullying behaviour in primary schools?
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Woods, Sarah and Wolke, Dieter (2003) Does the content of anti-bullying policies inform us about the prevalence of direct and relational bullying behaviour in primary schools? Educational Psychology, Volume 23 (Number 4). pp. 381-401. doi:10.1080/01443410303215 ISSN 0144-3410.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01443410303215
Abstract
The current study investigated whether the quality of school anti-bullying policies allows the drawing of any conclusions about the extent of bullying problems in schools. That is, do schools with a more detailed anti-bullying policy have lower rates of bullying? A total of 2377 children in primary schools (six year olds/year two: 1072; eight year olds/year four: 1305) were individually interviewed using a standard interview about bullying experiences. A detailed content analysis scheme that closely followed the core whole-school intervention approach was carried out on a total of 34 schools: 24.5% of the children reported being directly victimised very frequently and 45.9% reported being relationally victimised frequently or very frequently. No correlation between the content and quality of anti-bullying policies and the prevalence of direct bullying behaviour was found. Conversely, an inverse relationship was found for relational bullying behaviour: schools with the most detailed and comprehensive anti-bullying policies had a higher incidence of relational bullying and victimisation behaviour. Inspection of school anti-bullying policies per se provides little guide to the actual amount of direct bullying behaviour in schools.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Educational Psychology | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0144-3410 | ||||
Official Date: | 2003 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 23 | ||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 381-401 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01443410303215 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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