@article{ref1,
title="School bullying, homicide and income inequality: a cross-national pooled time series analysis",
journal="International journal of public health",
year="2013",
author="Elgar, Frank J. and Pickett, Kate E. and Pickett, William and Craig, Wendy M. and Molcho, Michal and Hurrelmann, Klaus and Lenzi, Michela",
volume="58",
number="2",
pages="237-245",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To examine the relation between income inequality and school bullying (perpetration, victimisation and bully/victims) and explore whether the relation is attributable to international differences in violent crime. METHODS: Between 1994 and 2006, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study surveyed 117 nationally representative samples of adolescents about their involvement in school bullying over the previous 2 months. Country prevalence rates of bullying were matched to data on income inequality and homicides. RESULTS: With time and country differences held constant, income inequality positively related to the prevalence of bullying others at least twice (b = 0.25), victimisation by bullying at least twice (b = 0.29) and both bullied and victimisation at least twice (b = 0.40). The relation between income inequality and victimisation was partially mediated by country differences in homicides. CONCLUSIONS: Understanding the social determinants of school bullying facilitates anti-bullying policy by identifying groups at risk and exposing its cultural and economic influences. This study found that cross-national differences in income inequality related to the prevalence of school bullying in most age and gender groups due, in part, to a social milieu of interpersonal violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-8556",
doi="10.1007/s00038-012-0380-y",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-012-0380-y"
}