Help seeking amongst child and adolescent victims of peer-aggression and bullying: The influence of school-stage, gender, victimisation, appraisal, and emotion

Boyle, James M.E. and Hunter, Simon C. and Warden, David (2004) Help seeking amongst child and adolescent victims of peer-aggression and bullying: The influence of school-stage, gender, victimisation, appraisal, and emotion. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 74 (3). pp. 375-390. ISSN 0007-0998 (https://doi.org/10.1348/0007099041552378)

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Abstract

An important element of many anti-bullying programmes is encouraging victims to tell someone about their predicament. Research has already reported prevalence of telling, who/when children tell and efficacy of telling. However, seeking help can be viewed as a coping behaviour, and coping processes such as appraisal and emotion may be important predictors of whether pupils ask for help. To examine the effects that background variables (gender, school-stage), victimisation (duration, frequency), appraisal (threat, challenge, control) and negative emotion have upon support seeking by child and adolescent victims of peer-aggression and bullying. To also examine how effective pupils perceive social support to be.

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Boyle, James M.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4621-478X, Hunter, Simon C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-1252 and Warden, David;
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