About Bullying

Bullying and peer victimization in educational settings has become a national public concern partly because youth who are victimized by schoolmates—particularly across multiple school years evidence a plethora of psycho-social and scholastic adjustment problems. This investigation’s aims were to map prevalence, normative trends, and patterns of continuity or change in school-based peer victimization throughout formal schooling (i.e., Grades K–12), and determine whether specific victimization patterns (i.e., differential trajectories) were associated with children’s academic performance.