Original articlePrevalence and Predictors of Internet Bullying
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Methods
Data for the present research were collected as part of a larger study evaluating a statewide initiative in Colorado to strengthen the skills and willingness of youth and adults to intervene in bullying situations. The Bullying Prevention Initiative (BPI) is a 3-year, $8.6-million initiative funded by The Colorado Trust, a private grant-making foundation in Denver, Colorado. The grantees funded by this initiative represent school districts, individual schools, or community-based organizations,
Results
The results presented below are arranged according to the two primary research objectives of this analysis: (1) to determine the prevalence of Internet compared with verbal and physical bullying perpetration in this sample of youth, and (2) to determine whether predictors of Internet bullying perpetration are similar to predictors of verbal and physical bullying perpetration. The first objective is addressed simply by tabulating the distributions of the three forms of bullying and examining
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