Sameera Shafiq, Sidra Batool.
Socio Demographic Risk Factors of Bullying and Victimization in Adolescents: Prevalence Based Study.
J Islamic Int Med Coll Jan ;18(1):50-5.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of bullying-victimization in adolescents and to subsequently explore impact of socio-demographic variables. Study Design: This cross-sectional research design. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Department of Psychology, University of Gujrat and data was collected from February to May 2019.Materials and Methods: Stratified sampling technique was applied to select 608 students, with age range between 16 to 19 years, from the private-public colleges of Sarai Alamgir with the permission of principals and teachers. Urdu version of Adolescent Peer Relationship Inventory (APRI) along with demographic form was administered on the students with their informed consent. Results: In 608 college students, 246(59.3%) were males and 169(40.8%) females. The prevalence for bullying in low, moderate and high categories was 57.2%, 21.1% and 21.7% respectively. Whereas 47.7%, 28%, and 24.3% of victimization in adolescents was prevalent in low, moderate and high categories. Hierarchical regression analysis found that gender, family system, and institution type are significant risk factors for predicting bullying-victimization syndrome and contributed to 19% of variance explained. Significant differences existed between gender, in which male students suffered more by bullying-victimization syndrome2 as compared to female students (χ =103.50, p<0.001). However, adolescents living in joint family system were 2 significantly victimized more than the one living in nuclear family systems (χ =5.55, p<0.05). There were 2 significant differences in bullying behaviours of the students studying in public and private colleges (χ =4.20, p<0.05). Students studying in public colleges expressed more bullying behaviour than students studying in private colleges. Conclusion: The phenomenon of bullying and victimization is prevalent in the adolescents studying at college level. Demographic variables of gender, family system, and institute type served as risk factors for bullying and victimization syndrome.

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