Gender Differences in Bullying Reflect Societal Gender Inequality: A Multilevel Study With Adolescents in 46 Countries

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(22)00463-3/fulltext" target="_blank" >https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(22)00463-3/fulltext</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.05.015" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.05.015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gender Differences in Bullying Reflect Societal Gender Inequality: A Multilevel Study With Adolescents in 46 Countries

Original language description

Purpose: Social patterns in bullying show consistent gender differences in adolescent perpetration and victimization with large cross-national variations. Previous research shows associations between societal gender inequality and gender differences in some violent behaviors in adolescents. Therefore, there is a need to go beyond individual associations and use a more social ecological perspective when examining gender differences in bullying behaviors. The aim of the present study was twofold: (1) to explore cross-national gender differences in bullying behaviors and (2) to examine whether national-level gender inequality relates to gender differences in adolescent bullying behaviors. Methods: Traditional bullying and cyberbullying were measured in 11-year-olds to 15-year-olds in the 2017/18 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (n = 200,423). We linked individual data to national gender inequality (Gender Inequality Index, 2018) in 46 countries and tested their association using mixed-effects (multilevel) logistic regression models. Results: Large cross-national variations were observed in gender differences in bullying. Boys had higher odds of perpetrating both traditional and cyberbullying and victimization by traditional bullying than girls. Greater gender inequality at country level was associated with heightened gender differences in traditional bullying. In contrast, lower gender inequality was associated with larger gender differences for cyber victimization. Discussion: Societal gender inequality relates to adolescents&apos; involvement in bullying and gendered patterns in bullying. Public health policy should target societal factors that have an impact on young people&apos;s behavior. (c) 2022 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_025%2F0007294" target="_blank" >EF16_025/0007294: Effective Use of Social Research Studies for Practice</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

ISSN

1054-139X

e-ISSN

1879-1972

Volume of the periodical

71

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

601-608

UT code for WoS article

001085033200013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85133765960