Bullying Research Network

08/20/2026

The current study aims to reveal the forms of school bullying among gifted and non-gifted female students in middle school, identify sociability and feelings between female students, levels of bullying and victimization, and the potential intervention and prevention strategies for preventing bullying behavior.

Abbas, Z. A.-R., & Alsahou, H. J. (2026). The impact of bullying, sociability, and feelings on gifted and nongifted middle school female students in Kuwait–A comparative study. Journal of Educational Sciences Qatar University, 26(1), 251–272.

08/19/2026

In this longitudinal study, the authors examined the direct impact of friendship on adolescents’ use of help seeking, comfort seeking, concealment, and rumination to cope with peer stressors.

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., Scott, R. A., Skinner, E. A., & Kindermann, T. A. (2026). Seeking support or concealing? A longitudinal study of adolescents’ friendships, peer victimization, depression, and coping with peer relationship stressors. Developmental Psychology, 62(2), 350–364.

08/18/2026

This study investigates the associations of parental emotional support and family socioeconomic status with secondary school students' membership in the victimization group, and explores intergroup differences in family socioeconomic status and parental emotional support.

Jiang, T., & Liang, L.-H. (2026). Risk and protective effects of family socioeconomic status and parental emotional support in Asian secondary school students’ bullying victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 41(11–12), 3453–3480.

Previous research has examined students’ bullying experiences, its predictors, and the harm caused. However, the bidirectional relationship between family facto...

08/15/2026

Check out this BBC News article featuring BRNET member Dr. Elizabeth Nassem!

The article describes how stricter school dress codes can impact students' self-esteem, particularly highlighting students' personal experiences. Furthermore, Dr. Elizabeth Nassem offers advice on how schools can better support students regarding dress codes and uniform policies.

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Dr Elizabeth Nassem from the University of Bradford says school uniforms are increasingly out of step.

08/13/2026

Drawing on the “social misfit” hypothesis, this study tested whether peer victimization is more predictive of maladjustment when children have many same-race classmates who they view as low in aggression, as well as accounting for children's race, the racial composition of the classroom, and children's perceptions of other-race peers.

Troop-Gordon, W., Gordon, J. R., & Christensen, K. (2026). Peer victimization and adjustment: Moderation by perceptions of same-race and other-race classmates’ behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 1–16.

Peer victimization and adjustment: Moderation by perceptions of same-race and other-race classmates’ behavior

08/12/2026

The aim of this 4-year longitudinal study was to investigate the validity of two behavioral-based self-report scales: The School Bullying Victimization Scale (SBVS) and the School Bullying Perpetration Scale (SBPS).

Wänström, L., & Thornberg, R. (2026). A 4-Year Longitudinal Validation Study of the School Bullying Victimization Scale (SBVS) and the School Bullying Perpetration Scale (SBPS) for Students in Middle Childhood and Adolescence. Psychology of Violence, 16(3), 386–396.

Objective: The aim of this 4-year longitudinal study was to investigate the validity of two behavioral-based self-report scales: the School Bullying Victimization Scale (SBVS) and the School Bullying Perpetration Scale (SBPS). Method: The scales used behavioral items that represented physical, verba...

08/11/2026

This study investigated the relationships among college students’ experiences with bullying, moral disengagement, social closeness, and bystander behavior.

Wu, Y., Li, Y., Han, P., Zhao, D., Wang, Q., & Jiang, M. (2026). The relationship between social closeness, moral disengagement, and bystander behavior in cyberbullying. Behavioral Psychology/Psicología Conductual, 34(3), Article 46146.

08/06/2026

This study explores the experiences of assistant nurse managers who are bullied by subordinates in a psychiatric setting in South Africa, using a qualitative phenomenological approach.

Jones, D. C., Ndlovu, N., & Temane, A. (2026). Assistant nurse managers’ experiences of bullying by subordinates in psychiatric settings in South Africa. International Journal of Bullying Prevention.

08/06/2026

Grounded in a social-ecological framework, this study investigates the relationship between the availability of extracurricular activities and school-level aggressive and misconduct behaviors, specifically examining the mediating role of school-level instructional barriers and the moderating role of learning-related hindrances.

İlğan, A., Üztemur, S., & Gökalp, A. (2026). Understanding peer bullying and broader school aggression from a school psychology perspective: A social-ecological model based on extracurricular activities, instructional capacity, and learning contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1775082.

BackgroundPeer bullying is increasingly recognized as a contextual issue shaped by the school environment. Although extracurricular activities are often cons...

08/04/2026

This study employed descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and one-way ANOVA to compare school bullying victimization across variables regarding individual, family, school, and community factors.

Tan, M., Akezhuoli, H., Wang, H., Liu, X., Lu, J., & Zhou, X. (2026). Individual, family, school, and community factors on students’ bullying victimization in China: A cross-sectional study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026(1), Article 2647611.

School bullying is a complex issue in China, and it is imperative to explore factors at the social–ecological system levels that influence bullying victimization. A school-based mental health census ...