Gender Differences in Bullying Reflect Societal Gender Inequality: A Multilevel Study With Adolescents in 46 Countries
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F22%3A73622859" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/22:73622859 - isvavai.cz</a>
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>
Alternative languages
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' involvement in bullying and gendered patterns in bullying. Public health policy should target societal factors that have an impact on young people'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/).
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
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)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
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