Prevalence estimation of school bullying with the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire

Abstract The key aim of the present research was to study the “functionality” of two global variables in the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire and to examine the appropriateness of different cutoff points of these variables for prevalence estimation. Several empirical and conceptual analyses strongly attested to the functionality of the two selected variables in terms of construct validity and selected measurement properties. Similarly, a number of analyses indicated that (having been bullied/having bullied other students) “2 or 3 times a month” was a reasonable and useful lower‐bound cutoff point. With this cutoff point, “involved” students, victims, and bullies differed very markedly and in clearly different…

• EH
  EkstraStiftelsen Helse og Rehabilitering (Stiftelsen Dam)
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  Norges Forskningsråd