Prevalence of Bullying Among the Adolescent Students of Selected Schools of Dharan Sub- Metropolitan City, Nepal
Keywords:
Adolescent, Bullying, VictimizationAbstract
Background: Adolescence is the transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood. Bullying has several effects on the health, social interactions and academics. Victims of bullying often demonstrate difficulty in adjustment, poor academic results and some psychosomatic symptoms. Objectives: To find out the prevalence of bullying among the selected adolescent students and to find out the association between bullying and selected socio- demographic variables. Method and Materials: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was followed. The totals of 164 adolescent students studying in grade 8, 9 and 10 in school of Dharan were taken in 2019. Stratified random sampling and Simple random sampling technique was used to select the school and students respectively. Bullying was assessed using Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: Majority (98.2%) of respondents indicated that bullying occurred in their school. Majorities (84.8%) of the respondents were doing mild form of bullying, 11.6% were doing moderate form of bullying, and 1.3% were doing severe form of bullying .Majority (82.3%) of the respondents were mildly victimized, 15.2% were moderately victimized while only 2.4% were severely victimized. There was statistically significant association of prevalence of bullying with the age, gender, grade, family monthly income and obtained percentage of previous year’s annual examination (p<0.05). Conclusion: Bullying is common in schools and highly prevalent among adolescent. Maximum students had experienced physical, verbal, social bullying.
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