The Societal Context of School-Based Bullying Victimization: An Application of Institutional Anomie Theory in a Cross-National Sample

Tuttle, James ; Giménez, Gregorio (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Barrado, Beatriz

Resumen: The present study examines cross-national variation in school-based bullying victimization. Specifically, we address whether decommodification, a concept implicated in Institutional Anomie Theory that measures the degree of a society’s social welfare protection, is a protective factor against school-based bullying victimization. To test this theory, we retrieve data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) questionnaire and combine this data with other sources capturing cross-national factors hypothesized to impact bullying victimization. The sample consists of 286,871 adolescents (with an average age of 15 years) attending 14,192 schools nested within 55 high-and-middle-income countries. We estimate multilevel regression models with three levels of analysis (student, school, and country), finding that countries with a greater degree of decommodification have lower rates of school-based bullying. Overall, our findings illustrate that the national level of social welfare protection, which had been previously neglected in this research literature, is a robust predictor of bullying victimization.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1080/15388220.2022.2126850

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Journal of School Violence 22, 1 (2023), 28-43
ISSN: 1538-8220

Factor impacto JCR: 2.3 (2023)

Categ. JCR: CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY rank: 16 / 113 = 0.142 (2023) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH rank: 156 / 756 = 0.206 (2023) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL rank: 38 / 91 = 0.418 (2023) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL rank: 31 / 74 = 0.419 (2023) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 4.6 - Education (Q1) - Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.905 - Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (Q1) - Education (Q1)

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Economía Aplicada (Dpto. Economía Aplicada)