Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario, Canada.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Oct;53:101689. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101689. Epub 2023 Sep 9.
The rates of bullying during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time of unprecedented public health and social restrictions, were compared to earlier times when students attended school in person. Several studies indicated a notable decrease in the prevalence of bullying victimization and perpetration during the pandemic, particularly when online learning was implemented. But studies from countries with fewer social restrictions indicated increases in rates of bullying during the pandemic. Mixed results regarding prevalence rates for some bullying forms (e.g., cyberbullying) were also found. Racialized youth and LGBTQ+ youth reliably reported higher rates of bullying victimization during the pandemic, consistent with pre-pandemic patterns. Reasons for the inconsistencies in findings likely relate to diverse methods, timeframes, and sampling techniques, as well as different experiences with pandemic social restrictions. More longitudinal studies are needed to assess whether bullying involvement did in fact "change" during, compared to before, the pandemic. The findings point to the importance of peer relationships and hint at the potential of increased teacher supervision as a bullying prevention strategy.
在新冠疫情期间，即前所未有的公共卫生和社会限制时期，与学生在校期间相比，欺凌行为的发生率进行了比较。几项研究表明，在疫情期间，欺凌受害和欺凌行为的发生率显著下降，尤其是在实施在线学习时。但在社会限制较少的国家进行的研究表明，疫情期间欺凌行为的发生率有所增加。对于某些欺凌形式（例如网络欺凌）的流行率也存在混合结果。在疫情期间，种族化青年和 LGBTQ+青年可靠地报告了更高的欺凌受害率，这与疫情前的模式一致。研究结果不一致的原因可能与不同的方法、时间框架和抽样技术以及不同的疫情社会限制经历有关。需要更多的纵向研究来评估与疫情前相比，疫情期间欺凌行为的卷入是否“确实发生了变化”。这些发现指出了同伴关系的重要性，并暗示增加教师监督作为欺凌预防策略的潜力。
