NHC Key Laboratory of Drug Addiction Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Kunming Medical University, 1168 West Chunrong Road, Yuhua Street, Chenggong District, 650500, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
BMC Public Health. 2024 Feb 26;24(1):615. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18119-3.
School bullying is prevalent in children and adolescents. Bullying victims are seen higher risk of negative psychological outcomes. Previously published studies suggested that social indicators may pose significant influence on bullying victimization. However, the association between social poverty and bullying victimization has not been exclusively discussed.
In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed the association between 6 commonly used social poverty indicators (Poverty Headcount Ratio, PHR; Poverty Gap, PG; Squared Poverty Gap, SPG; monthly household per capita income, PCI; Watts' Poverty Index, WPI; the Gini Index, Gini) and the prevalence of school bullying at country level by using the Global school-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) database.
Altogether 16 countries were included into the final analysis, with school bullying victimization prevalence ranged from 12.9 to 47.5%. Bubble plots revealed statistically significant associations between the three indicators measuring absolute poverty level (PHR, PCI, WPI) and bullying victimization. Subsequently performed principal component regression indicated that, for all types of bullying victimization, the increase of absolute poverty level was related to elevated prevalence rates, and the association was particularly strong for verbal bullying victimization.
Our study results may suggest that absolute social poverty is an important parameter for constructing and implementing school bullying victimization intervention strategies and measures.
校园欺凌在儿童和青少年中普遍存在。欺凌受害者面临更高的负面心理后果风险。先前发表的研究表明，社会指标可能对欺凌受害产生重大影响。然而，社会贫困与欺凌受害之间的关联尚未得到专门讨论。
在这项横断面研究中，我们通过使用全球基于学校的学生健康调查（GSHS）数据库，分析了 6 种常用社会贫困指标（贫困人口比率、贫困差距、平方贫困差距、月人均家庭收入、瓦特贫困指数和基尼指数）与国家层面校园欺凌发生率之间的关联。
共有 16 个国家纳入最终分析，校园欺凌受害率范围为 12.9%至 47.5%。气泡图显示，衡量绝对贫困水平的三个指标（PHR、PCI、WPI）与欺凌受害之间存在统计学上显著的关联。随后进行的主成分回归表明，对于所有类型的欺凌受害，绝对贫困水平的增加与患病率的升高有关，而言语欺凌受害的关联尤为强烈。
我们的研究结果可能表明，绝对社会贫困是制定和实施校园欺凌受害干预策略和措施的一个重要参数。
