Ahmed Md Zahir, Ahmed Oli, Hiramoni Fatema Akhter
Policy Research Centre.bd, House-43, Road-5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh.
Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Chattogram-4331, Bangladesh.
Heliyon. 2021 Jun 25;7(6):e07415. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07415. eCollection 2021 Jun.
Bullying at schools is considered as the most contemptible anti-social behavior for students (Neto, 2005). There is little information about the prevalence and nature of bullying victimization experiences among Bangladeshi school students. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and nature of bullying experienced by Bangladeshi school students. A sample of 556 students were surveyed utilizing the translated Bangla version of the Multidimensional Bullying Victimization Scale. Nearly half of the participants were bullying victims in schools over the last year. Results showed that the most commonly experienced forms of bullying were pushing or shoving, being made fun of, and having rumours spread. Students who were boys, from public schools, and lived in urban areas had significantly higher bullying victimization experiences. Findings of this present study would be helpful for the policymakers and other stakeholders to reform anti-bullying policies and appoint school psychologists to ascertain positive behavior and eliminate bullying entirely.
校园霸凌被认为是学生中最可鄙的反社会行为（内托，2005年）。关于孟加拉国在校学生遭受霸凌经历的普遍性和性质，几乎没有相关信息。因此，本研究旨在调查孟加拉国在校学生遭受霸凌的普遍性和性质。使用多维霸凌受害量表的孟加拉语翻译版本对556名学生进行了调查。近一半的参与者在过去一年里在学校遭受过霸凌。结果表明，最常经历的霸凌形式是推搡、被取笑以及谣言传播。男生、公立学校学生以及居住在城市地区的学生遭受霸凌的经历显著更高。本研究的结果将有助于政策制定者和其他利益相关者改革反霸凌政策，并任命学校心理学家来确定积极行为并彻底消除霸凌。
