Definitions of Bullying: A Comparison of Terms Used, and Age and Gender Differences, in a Fourteen–Country International Comparison

K Smith, Peter; Cowie, Helen; F Olafsson, Ragnar; P D Liefooghe, Andy; Almeida, Ana; Araki, Hozumi; del Barrio, Cristina; Costabile, Angela; Dekleva, Bojan; Houndoumadi, Anastasia; Kim, Kenneth; P Olafsson, Ragnar; Ortega, Rosario; Pain, Jacques; Pateraki, Lena; Schafer, Mechthild; Singer, Monika; Smorti, Andrea; Toda, Yuichi; Tomasson, Helgi; Wenxin, Zhang

doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00461

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Definitions of Bullying: A Comparison of Terms Used, and Age and Gender Differences, in a Fourteen–Country International Comparison

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Authors:

Peter K Smith

Helen Cowie

Ragnar F Olafsson

Abstract

Abstract The study of school bullying has recently assumed an international dimension, but is faced with difficulties in finding terms in different languages to correspond to the English word bullying. To investigate the meanings given to various terms, a set of 25 stick–figure cartoons was devised,...

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