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Arënliu, Aliriza; Benbenishty, Rami; Kelmendi, Kaltrina; Duraku, Zamira Hyseni; Konjufca, Jon; Astor, Ron Avi – School Psychology International, 2022
Student victimization by school staff members has important potential consequences for students' academic achievement and physical and psychological outcomes. Several studies have shown that such victimization exists in multiple contexts and there is considerable variation in prevalence among contexts. This study examined the prevalence of student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims, Incidence, Public Schools
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Rawlings, Jared R.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Youth & Society, 2020
Homophobic name-calling is commonplace in middle schools and is emerging as an antecedent to more serious, deleterious concerns, including depressive or anxious symptoms among youth. While music education researchers suggest that youth enrolled in music ensembles are targets for homophobic epitaphs, little is known about how experiencing…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Middle School Students, Bullying, Music Education
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Safaria, Triantoro – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
In recent years cyberbullying has become widespread throughout junior high schools around the world, resulting in high numbers of adolescents affected by cybervictimization. Cybervictimization is associated with negative psychological health outcomes. The objective of the present study was to examine the impact and prevalence of cybervictimization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Incidence
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Malecki, Christine Kerres; Demaray, Michelle Kilpatrick; Coyle, Samantha; Geosling, Raymond; Rueger, Sandra Yu; Becker, Lisa Davidson – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: Bullying behavior is related to higher levels of internalizing distress and can be defined as including three aspects: frequency, intentionality, and power differential. However, bullying behavior is most often measured using only one aspect: frequency. Objective: The current study investigated the relative importance of several…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Development, Emotional Development, Intention
Langberg, Joshua M.; Molitor, Stephen J.; Oddo, Lauren E.; Eadeh, Hana-May; Dvorsky, Melissa R.; Becker, Stephen P. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Objective: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of multiple types of sleep problems in young adolescents with ADHD. Method: 262 adolescents comprehensively diagnosed with ADHD and their caregivers completed well-validated measures of sleep problems and daytime sleepiness. Participants also completed measures related…
Descriptors: Sleep, Early Adolescents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Drug Therapy
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Kabir, M. A.; Goh, Kim-Leng – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate tobacco use behaviours and their correlates among secondary school students in Nepal and Sri Lanka together with cross-country comparisons. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Methods and Settings: The data were obtained from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), 2007. Current tobacco use was considered as…
Descriptors: Smoking, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Health Behavior
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Aune, Tore; Stiles, Tore C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study assessed age and sex differences in the prevalence and incidence rates of syndromal social anxiety (SSA), as well as the predictive role of depressive symptoms and stressful life events on the development and persistence of SSA. A sample of 1,439 young people, between 11 and 14 years of age, was assessed twice within a 12-month…
Descriptors: Incidence, Persistence, Age Differences, Gender Differences
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Lopes, Joao A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2007
This study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of emotional, behavior and academic problems and their association in a 7th grade school-based sample. Behavioral data were gathered in the beginning and end of the school year and academic data were collected six times throughout the year (twice every trimester). In the whole we found that,…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Incidence