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The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SESSION INTRODUCTION:
The goal of this symposium session is to present a series of papers discussing the definition of youth bullying, analysis of current measurement, and specific risk factors that place youth at risk for bullying victimization and perpetration. The symposium supports the conference themes of epidemiology and etiology. The symposium assembles researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Boston University, and the University of Illinois who are studying bullying behavior among youth and whose research can provide insight for future prevention and intervention strategies.
The first paper in this symposium, “The Process for Creating a Uniform Definition of Bullying,” provides of overview of the Uniform Bullying Definition Project spearheaded by CDC, with assistance from the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention and bullying researchers from across the globe. The authors describe the process of developing a uniform definition of bullying and what is included in the accompanying document. The presentation will also provide additional information about important components for measurement and a brief analysis of current measurement strategies.
The second paper, “Bullying and its Relation to Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis”, presents results from a meta-analysis that was conducted to determine effect sizes for the association between bullying victimization and perpetration and suicidality. The authors completed a systematic search for articles that examined this relationship and performed two mixed effects meta-analyses, one for bullying victimization and one for bullying perpetration. The findings show a significant, moderate association between bullying victimization and suicidality and a significant, yet small relation between bullying perpetration and suicidality.
The third paper in the series, “Associations Among Bully, Homophobic Teasing and Sexual Violence Perpetration among Middle School Students,” describes bullying as a risk factor for sexual violence (SV) perpetration. The authors describe the Bully-SV Pathway theoretical model and apply it to a sample of middle school students. In analyses, the authors show that the Bully-SV Pathwaywas present where bully perpetration predicted sexual harassment among boys, and that homophobic teasing modified the relation between bullying perpetration and later sexual harassment perpetration.