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Published in: BMC Public Health 1/2024

Open Access 01-12-2024 | Research

Social poverty indicators with school bullying victimization: evidence from the global school-based student health survey (GSHS)

Authors: Lin Chen, Ying Chen, Hailiang Ran, Yusan Che, Die Fang, Qiongxian Li, Yuanyu Shi, Shuqing Liu, Yandie He, Guiqing Zheng, Yuanyuan Xiao

Published in: BMC Public Health | Issue 1/2024

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Abstract

Background

School bullying is prevalent in children and adolescents. Bullying victims are seen higher risk of negative psychological outcomes. Previously published studies suggested that social indicators may pose significant influence on bullying victimization. However, the association between social poverty and bullying victimization has not been exclusively discussed.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed the association between 6 commonly used social poverty indicators (Poverty Headcount Ratio, PHR; Poverty Gap, PG; Squared Poverty Gap, SPG; monthly household per capita income, PCI; Watts’ Poverty Index, WPI; the Gini Index, Gini) and the prevalence of school bullying at country level by using the Global school-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) database.

Results

Altogether 16 countries were included into the final analysis, with school bullying victimization prevalence ranged from 12.9 to 47.5%. Bubble plots revealed statistically significant associations between the three indicators measuring absolute poverty level (PHR, PCI, WPI) and bullying victimization. Subsequently performed principal component regression indicated that, for all types of bullying victimization, the increase of absolute poverty level was related to elevated prevalence rates, and the association was particularly strong for verbal bullying victimization.

Conclusions

Our study results may suggest that absolute social poverty is an important parameter for constructing and implementing school bullying victimization intervention strategies and measures.
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Metadata
Title
Social poverty indicators with school bullying victimization: evidence from the global school-based student health survey (GSHS)
Authors
Lin Chen
Ying Chen
Hailiang Ran
Yusan Che
Die Fang
Qiongxian Li
Yuanyu Shi
Shuqing Liu
Yandie He
Guiqing Zheng
Yuanyuan Xiao
Publication date
01-12-2024
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Public Health / Issue 1/2024
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18119-3

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