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How
common is bullying?
One of the largest
studies of bullying involved over 28,000 children in Australia
between 1993 and 1998. About half of the children (between
8 and 18 years) said they had not been bullied that year.
However some children were being bullied regularly: one
in five boys said they were bullied weekly and one in six
girls said the same.
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Article details
K Rigby (2002) 'New
Perspectives on Bullying', London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Limited. Information about this book including contents,
reviews and ordering details are available here.
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Graph
details
'Incidence
of victimisation in Australian schools (percentages reported
during the school year)', from the Rigby article above,
Table 3.1.
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Boys |
Girls |
| Every
day |
2.9 |
1.2 |
| Most
days |
5.7 |
3.8 |
| Once
or twice a week |
14.3 |
11.0 |
| Less
than once a week |
27.3 |
26.2 |
| Never |
49.8 |
57.9 |
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Author details
 Ken
Rigby is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Psychology
and an educational consultant at the University of South
Australia. He has been involved in major studies of bullying
in Australia and has published widely on this topic. For
more information about Dr Rigby and his work see the
bullying pages here. Ken may be contacted by e-mail.
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