@article{ref1,
title="School social cohesion, student-school connectedness, and bullying in Colombian adolescents",
journal="Global health promotion",
year="2015",
author="Springer, Andrew E. and Cuevas Jaramillo, Maria Clara and Ortiz Gómez, Yamileth and Case, Katie and Wilkinson, Anna",
volume="23",
number="4",
pages="37-48",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Student-school connectedness is inversely associated with multiple health risk behaviors, yet research is limited on the relative contributions of a student's connectedness with school and an overall context of school social cohesion to peer victimization/bullying. <br><br>PURPOSE: We examined associations of perceived school cohesion and student-school connectedness with physical victimization, verbal victimization, and social exclusion in the past six months in adolescents in grades 6-11 (N = 774) attending 11 public and private urban schools in Colombia. <br><br>METHODS: Cross-sectional data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using mixed-effects linear regression models. <br><br>RESULTS: Higher perceived school cohesion was inversely related with exposure to three bullying types examined (p < 0.05); student-school connectedness was negatively related to verbal victimization among girls only (p < 0.01). In full models, school cohesion maintained inverse associations with three bullying types after controlling for student-school connectedness (p ≤ 0.05). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Enhancing school cohesion may hold benefits for bullying prevention beyond a student's individual school connectedness.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1757-9759",
doi="10.1177/1757975915576305",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975915576305"
}