Bullying: Are researchers and children/youth talking about the same thing?

By T. Vaillancourt, Patricia McDougall, Shelley Hymel, Amanda L. Krygsman, Jenelle Miller, Kelley Stiver, Clinton Davis. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Cyberbullying Definition Among Adolescents: A Comparison Across Six European Countries (2012, positive): “This criterion describes that someone who is more powerful in some way targets a person with less power.(17) The imbalance of power causes a feeling of powerlessness for the victim and also makes it difficult to defend oneself.”
What Can Be Done About School Bullying? (2010, background): “Boys are more often victimized than girls (Espelage & Holt, 2001; Kumpulainen, Rasanen, & Henttonen, 1998; Vaillancourt et al., 2008), although this depends somewhat on the form of victimization.”
Risk Factors for involvement in cyber bullying: Victims, bullies, and bully-victims (2012, background): “Both are necessary to establish (Vaillancourt et al., 2008; Vandebosch & Van Cleemput, 2008).”
Bullying in early educational settings (2012, background): “Young children easily equate bullying with physical aggression and physical aggression often forms a part of six-year-old children’s definition of bullying (Smith & Levan, 1995; Vaillancourt et al., 2008).”
What is bullying? A theoretical redefinition. (2014, background): “” Measures used by several other investigators assess bullying by providing a similar definition to students completing selfreport questionnaires (Konishi et al., 2009; Vaillancourt et al., 2008).”
Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Bullying in School Settings (2011, background): “The prototypical submissive victims have generally been characterized as boys, particularly in reference to direct physical abuse (Olweus 1999; Vaillancourt et al. 2008).”
Investigating associations between school climate and bullying in secondary schools: Multilevel contextual effects modeling (2017, background): “We also controlled for sex and grade in these analyses, because our bullying measures could potentially be attributed in part to these factors (Barker, Arsenault, Brendgen, Fontaine, & Maughan, 2008; Espelage & Holt, 2001; Pepler, Jiang, Craig, & Connolly, 2008; Reijntjes et al., 2013; Vaillancourt ”
Peer victimization and depression in children with and without motor coordination difficulties (2012, background): “First, children read a definition of bullying that differentiated it from fighting, aggression, and teasing (Vaillancourt et al., 2008).”
So you want to study bullying? Recommendations to enhance the validity, transparency, and compatibility of bullying research (2017, background): “…participants use the core elements of this definition when answering questions about bullying (e.g., they omit power, harm, repetition, and/or intentionality; Bazelon, 2013; Green et al., 2013; Hellström, Persson, & Hagquist, 2015; Oldenburg, Bosman, & Veenstra, 2016; Vaillancourt et al., 2008).”
Optimizing Population Screening of Bullying in School-Aged Children (2010, background): “The importance of terminology and definition is central to the accurate interpretation of findings and for reliable comparisons of data (eg, Arora, 1996 ; Boulton, Trueman, & Flemington, 2002 ; Smith et al, 2002 ; Vaillancourt et al, 2008 ).”
Definitions of school bullying in Taiwan: A comparison of multiple perspectives (2011, methodology): “We employed the single open-ended question, which has been used frequently in recent studies (Monks & Smith, 2006; Naylor et al., 2006; Vaillancourt et al., 2008).”
Four decades of research on school bullying: An introduction. (2015, background): “of bullying rarely include these definitional criteria (Vaillancourt et al., 2008), leading many researchers to provide definitions of bullying in their assessments.”