Lauren N Girouard-Hallam, Judith H Danovitch
How does Google get its information?: Children's judgements about Google search
The British journal of developmental psychology
although violence among us youth current major concern bullying infrequently addressed national data prevalence bullying availableto measure prevalence bullying behaviors among us youth determine association bullying bullied indicators psychosocial adjustment including problem behavior school adjustment socialemotional adjustment parentinganalysis data representative sample 15 686 students grades 6 10 public private schools throughout united states completed world health organizations health behaviour schoolaged children survey spring 1998selfreport involvement bullying bullied othersa total 299 sample reported moderate frequent involvement bullying bully 130 one bullied 106 63 males likely females perpetrators targets bullying frequency bullying higher among 6th 8thgrade students among 9th 10thgrade students perpetrating experiencing bullying associated poorer psychosocial adjustment p001 however different patterns association occurred among bullies bullied bullied others bullied themselvesthe prevalence bullying among us youth substantial given concurrent behavioral emotional difficulties associated bullying well potential longterm negative outcomes youth issue bullying merits serious attention future research preventive intervention