TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - School social cohesion, student-school connectedness, and bullying in Colombian adolescents
JO  - Global health promotion
A1  - Springer, Andrew E.
A1  - Cuevas Jaramillo, Maria Clara
A1  - Ortiz Gómez, Yamileth
A1  - Case, Katie
A1  - Wilkinson, Anna
SP  - 37
EP  - 48
VL  - 23
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1757-9759
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975915576305
ID  - ref1
ER  -