Measuring Bullying, Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander ...

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B5. Peer Victimization Scale
Really
true
for me
Sort
of true
for me
3
11
19
27
35
43
Some children are often teased by
other children
Some children are often bullied by
other children
Some children are not called
horrible names
Some children are often
picked on by other children
Some children are not hit and
pushed about by other children
Some children are not laughed at
by other children
BUT
BUT
BUT
BUT
BUT
BUT
Other children are not teased
by other children
Other children are not bullied by
other children
Other children are often
called horrible names
Other children are not
picked on by other children
Other children are often hit and
pushed about by other children
Other children are often laughed
at by other children
Sort
of true
for me
Really
true
for me
Copyright © 1996 The British Psychological Society. Reproduced by special permission of the publisher, British Journal of Educational Psychology, and The British
Psychological Society, St. Andrews House, 48 Princess Road East, Leicester, LE1 7DR, United Kingdom, from: Assessment of bully/victim problems in 8–11 year-olds
by Sharon Austin and Stephen Joseph. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission from The British Psychological Society.
Scoring Instructions
Item numbers refer to position inserted on the Self-
Perception Profile for Children (SPPC; Harter, 1985).
For each question, respondents indicate which of
two discordant statements is most like him or her.
Then, respondents indicate how true (“really” or
“sort of”) the statement is for him or her.
Each item is scored 1 (Really True for Me on the
left side) to 4 (Really True for Me on the right side).
Items 3, 11 and 27 are reverse scored so that higher
scores indicate greater experience of victimization.
The scale is scored by computing the mean item
score (i.e., sum of the items / 6). The scale has a
range of 1 to 4. Higher scores indicate greater
bully victimization.
References
Austin, S., & Joseph, S. (1996). Assessment of
bully/victim problems in 8–11 year-olds.
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 66,
447–456.
Developer’s Contact Information
Stephen Joseph, PhD
Centre for Trauma, Resilience, and Growth
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Tel: +44 115 951 5410
stephen.joseph@nottingham.ac.uk