PREVALENCE OF BULLYING AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIAL FACTORS IN UPPER PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NAN PROVINCE
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BACKGROUND Bullying is a type of aggression that impacts psychosocial development of both bullies and bully-victims. The long-term effects of bullying will impact serious psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, social phobia, substance abuse, antisocial or suicidal attempts.
OBJECCTIVE To investigate the prevalence of bullying and associated familial factors in upper primary and secondary school students in Nan province.
METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was collected to upper primary and secondary school students with the age of 10-18 years old by online questionnaire (Google form). Data were analyzed by using chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression.
RESULTS Of 386 students who replied the questionnaire, 79% had experiences of bullying. Most of the victims were female (56%), and 70.7% were aged below 12 years old. Besides, 48.2% of the children who experienced bullying revealed that they had perceived parent’s brutality or quarrel, which is more than non-bullying -experienced children that only 33.3% (p=0.017). In terms of bullying, 4.3% were bullies, 55.1% were victims, and 40.6% were involved in both roles. Most of the first bullying occurred during elementary school (44.3 %).The weaker body was the most common cause of bullying (35.4%). Verbal bullying was the most common type (72.5%) by friends in their classroom (86.6%). Break-time was the most common period of bullying (60.7%). However, 68.2% of the students revealed no effects of bullying, but having stress 57.4%. Teachers were the people that the students want some help when bullying (63.3%). The results from the multilevel analysis showed that familial factors, including family status, experience of family violence (parents quarrel, give vulgar slangs, fight or throw something to each other, being punished), and parenting style were not statistically significantly associated with bullying.
CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS The prevalence of bullying in upper primary and secondary school students is 79%. Familial factors are not statistically significantly associated with bullying in this study. Hence, the related people should pay more attention and emphasize the bullying problems in school to protect against further psychological problems.
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