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

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PART II:
Did this happen to you, during the past four weeks in school? (Leave the item blank if it did not happen
to you). Read the items below and put a check mark in the box for the ones that are true for you. For
each item you have checked, write down:
• the number of times it took place during the past four weeks
• the name of the student who did it to you – you can write a name more than once
• his/her grade
These questions are about yourself, during the past four weeks in school:
1. This student hurt me by hitting or beating me up.
2. This student said s/he would harm me or do bad things to me.
3. This student set me up to make others blame me.
4. This student took my things and did not give them back to me.
5. This student teased me and made fun of me in a mean way.
6. This student told lies and stories about me to make others dislike me.
7. This student broke my things on purpose.
8. This student called me bad names or made cruel jokes about me.
9. This student told others not to be my friend.
10. This student pushed me on purpose, made me fall and get hurt.
11. This student phoned me to give me a hard time.
12. This student said s/he would not be my friend if I didn’t do what s/he said.
13. This student locked me up in a room or closed space.
14. This student made mean jokes, noises, or faces at me when I walked by.
15. This student made others leave me out of things.
Number of times in
the past 4 weeks
Who did this
to you?
His/her
grade
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UK from: The efficacy of non-anonymous measures of bullying. School Psychology International, 26, 443–458 by John F. Chan, Rowan Myron, & Martin Crawshaw.
Scoring Instructions
PART I
Physical Bullying: Items 1, 4, and 7
Verbal Bullying: Items 2, 5, and 8
Relational Bullying: Items 3, 6, and 9
PART II
Physical Victimization: Items 1, 4, 7, 10, and 13
Verbal Victimization: Items 2, 5, 8, 11, and 14
Relational Victimization: Items 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15
Underlying the scoring rationale of the questionnaire
is a frequency and dura¬tion parameter designed to
operationally define persistence over time, and it is
the average occurrence of at least one incident per
week during the past four weeks, expressed as a
frequency of f ≥ 4.
The application of the cut-off criterion at P + V + R ≥
4 (P stands for physical, V for verbal, R for relational)
must be considered exploratory. This criterion was
chosen for its comparability to other studies in
defining a magnitude of weekly occurrence.
It is also reasonable to expect that with equal
weight assigned to the three types of bullying and
victimization in the combined rates P + V + R ≥ 4
cut-off, student’s responses will be pushed towards
reporting less severe events, which would not have
been included as bullying if the global method had
been used instead.
Scores on the subscales are computed by summing
the reported frequency of occurrence across
subscale items. A frequency of four acts during the
past four weeks is selected as the cut-off level for
determining whether someone has engaged in bully
perpetration or experienced bully victimization (e.g.,
P + V + R ≥ 4, where P stands for physical, V for
verbal, and R for relational).
References
Chan, J. H. F., Myron, R. R., & Crawshaw, C. M.
(2005). The efficacy of non-anonymous measures
of bullying. School Psychology International, 26,
443–458.