@article{ref1,
title="The societal context of school-based bullying victimization: an application of institutional anomie theory in a cross-national sample",
journal="Journal of school violence",
year="2023",
author="Tuttle, James and Gimenez, Gregorio and Barrado, Beatriz",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="28-43",
abstract="The present study examines cross-national variation in school-based bullying victimization. Specifically, we address whether decommodification, a concept implicated in Institutional Anomie Theory that measures the degree of a society's social welfare protection, is a protective factor against school-based bullying victimization. To test this theory, we retrieve data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) questionnaire and combine this data with other sources capturing cross-national factors hypothesized to impact bullying victimization. The sample consists of 286,871 adolescents (with an average age of 15 years) attending 14,192 schools nested within 55 high-and-middle-income countries. We estimate multilevel regression models with three levels of analysis (student, school, and country), finding that countries with a greater degree of decommodification have lower rates of school-based bullying. Overall, our findings illustrate that the national level of social welfare protection, which had been previously neglected in this research literature, is a robust predictor of bullying victimization.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1538-8220",
doi="10.1080/15388220.2022.2126850",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2022.2126850"
}