TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Associations between school-wide practices and school-wide bullying: advancing the cross-country understanding of teachers' perspectives from the U.S. and China
JO  - School psychology
A1  - Yang, Chunyan
A1  - Dong, Quennie
A1  - Rho, Ella
A1  - Teng, Zhaojun
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - To understand the role of different school-wide practices in school-wide bullying prevention in the global context, this present study was guided by the social-ecological framework to examine cross-country similarities and differences in the association between three forms of school-wide practices (i.e., punitive, positive, and social and emotional learning [SEL] practices) and school-wide bullying between United States (n = 1,833) and Chinese (n = 1,627) teachers from middle and high schools. Measurement invariance tests confirmed that the associations between the three forms of school-wide practices and school-wide bullying were comparable across the two countries. <br><br>RESULTS of multilevel analyses suggested that more frequent positive practices at the between-school level were associated with increased school-wide bullying in the United States but decreased school-wide bullying in the Chinese. Also, more frequent punitive practices at the within-school level were associated with increased school-wide bullying in both the U.S. and Chinese samples, and this positive association between punitive practices and school-wide bullying was significantly stronger in the Chinese sample than in the U.S. sample. More frequent punitive practices at the between-school level were also associated with increased school-wide bullying in the U.S. sample, but not in the Chinese sample. Moreover, the frequent SEL practices at the within-school level were significantly associated with decreased school-wide bullying in the United States, but not in China; the frequent SEL practices at the between-school level were associated with decreased school-wide bullying in the United States but increased school-wide bullying in China. Implications for school-wide practices in bullying prevention and intervention with sociocultural considerations were discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2578-4218
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000557
ID  - ref1
ER  -