Associations of psychological factors, parental involvement, and adverse health behaviors with bullying among tunisian middle school students.
Adolescent
Bullying
Schools
Tunisia
Journal
BMC psychology
ISSN: 2050-7283
Titre abrégé: BMC Psychol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101627676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 May 2023
12 May 2023
Historique:
received:
18
11
2022
accepted:
26
04
2023
medline:
15
5
2023
pubmed:
13
5
2023
entrez:
12
5
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Bullying is a serious problem that significantly affect adolescent well-being and health, needing the attention of teachers, school administrators, parents and public health professionals. In this study, we aimed at estimating the prevalence of bullying, from the perspective of victims in middle school students in the region of Monastir Tunisia, as well as analyzing its association with individual and family context variables. This is a cross-sectional study conducted in December 2017 and January 2018 among a sample of students from two middle schools in the region of Monastir (Tunisia), using the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) self-answered questionnaire. We defined bullying victimization as being bullied in at least one day in the previous 30 days. Binary logistic regression model was used to identify factors associated with being bullied. Out of 802 students included in this study, nearly half (43.4%) reported having been bullied in the past month with CI Bullying victimization was common among school-going adolescents and was linked with physical fight and psychosocial distress. This study highlights the need for school-based violence prevention programs to address this problem among the students.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Bullying is a serious problem that significantly affect adolescent well-being and health, needing the attention of teachers, school administrators, parents and public health professionals. In this study, we aimed at estimating the prevalence of bullying, from the perspective of victims in middle school students in the region of Monastir Tunisia, as well as analyzing its association with individual and family context variables.
METHODS
METHODS
This is a cross-sectional study conducted in December 2017 and January 2018 among a sample of students from two middle schools in the region of Monastir (Tunisia), using the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) self-answered questionnaire. We defined bullying victimization as being bullied in at least one day in the previous 30 days. Binary logistic regression model was used to identify factors associated with being bullied.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Out of 802 students included in this study, nearly half (43.4%) reported having been bullied in the past month with CI
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
Bullying victimization was common among school-going adolescents and was linked with physical fight and psychosocial distress. This study highlights the need for school-based violence prevention programs to address this problem among the students.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37173773
doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01190-7
pii: 10.1186/s40359-023-01190-7
pmc: PMC10182717
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
154Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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