Accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and evaluation. Limitations many currently available self-report measures victimization include a lack psychometric information, use the emotionally laden term "bullying" in definition-first approaches surveys, not assessing all components definition (chronicity, intentionality, imbalance power) behavioral-based methods. To address these limitations, we developed California Bullying Victimization Scale (CBVS), which scale...

As frontline education providers, teachers have encountered many challenges since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. To better understand teacher well-being during this crisis and inform practices to support them, study employed an online survey with a mixed-methods approach assess they need work effectively. A sample 151 elementary school in United States was recruited summer 2020 complete through emails social media outlets. Participants were asked provide retrospective reports their...

Abstract This study investigates the role of school connectedness in mediating relation between students' sense hope and life satisfaction for three groups: Bullied Victims, Peer Nonvictims. Students grades 5 to 12 ( N = 866) completed California Bully/Victim Scale, School Connectedness Children's Hope Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. Multigroup latent mean analysis revealed significant group differences hope, connectedness, satisfaction, supporting our bullying classification. structural...

Civic engagement, defined as involvement in community life, is influenced by reciprocal relationships between individuals and contexts a key factor that contributes to positive youth development. The present study evaluates theoretical model linking perceived democratic school climate with adolescent civic engagement (operationalized responsibility intentions for future participation), taking into account the mediating role of discussions fairness at school. Participants were 403 adolescents...

Bullying is the most common form of school violence and associated with a range negative outcomes, including traumatic responses. This study used hierarchical linear modeling to examine multilevel moderating effects climate level (i.e., elementary, middle, high schools) on association between bullying victimization student engagement. Participants included 25,896 students in 4th 12th grades from 114 schools. Results indicated that, after controlling for demographic factors, positive was...

Abstract Given the importance of student engagement for healthy outcomes, research needs to investigate whether school‐based assets promote beyond individual and family influences. Unfortunately, such has been limited by a lack valid instrumentation. After examining psychometrics California Healthy Kids Survey Resilience Youth Development Module, we used this risk resilience instrument with randomly selected sample 10,000 diverse 7th‐, 9th‐, 11th‐grade students test model relations between...

Abstract Obesity among children and adolescents is a major public health concern affecting the physical emotional of youth while increasing their risk reduced quality duration life. Schools communities have begun to galvanize address this epidemic need empirical information guide policy, programming, intervention efforts. This article reviews definition childhood obesity physical, psychosocial, academic consequences youth. The roles schools school psychologists in intervening against...

US schools fail to engage a significant proportion of adolescent students. Although student engagement is significantly related academic achievement, there dearth longitudinal research simultaneously examining the impact personal and contextual factors on at both individual school levels. Using nationally‐representative sample, multilevel growth curve analyses found adolescents' in initial status rate growth. Significant level were students' locus control, self‐esteem, peer value, parental...

Schools frequently assess bullying and the Olweus Bully/Victimization Questionnaire (BVQ; Olweus, 1996) is most widely adopted tool for this purpose. The BVQ a self-report survey that uses definitional measurement method--describing "bullying" as involving repeated, intentional aggression in relationship where there an imbalance of power then asking respondents to indicate how they experienced type victimization. Few studies have examined validity whether method truly identifies repetition...

Research on youth civic engagement has emphasized the importance of growing up in a context. We examined relative influence neighborhood characteristics (neighborhood opportunities and intergenerational closure), education at school, friends’ engagement, parents’ attitudes behaviors among youths. Participants were 403 11‐ to 15‐year‐old adolescents randomly selected from city register midsized Italy. The hierarchical regression analysis found that all analyzed contexts related adolescent...

Students who are victimized by their peers at risk for developing depressive symptoms, which is detrimental academic and social development. Social support may be a protective factor peer victims, the manner in this occurs vary according to gender, age, other demographic variables. This study examined main stress-buffering effects of perceived from various sources against manifestation symptoms victims. A convenience sample 544 seventh eighth graders three middle schools completed survey...

AbstractAbstract. Objectives: This study examined whether childhood bullying victimization was associated with psychosocial and academic functioning at college. Participants: The sample consisted of 413 first-year students from a large northeastern university. Methods: Students completed an online survey in February 2012 that included items assessing past involvement, current functioning, experiences since arriving Results: Regression analyses indicated reports other peer were lower mental...

Youth gang involvement is a serious public health challenge as adolescents involved in gangs are more likely than others to engage violence and aggression. To better understand involvement, we examined the role of protective (empathy parental support) risk (peer deviance lack safety at school) factors, well their interactions, predicting adolescent affiliation. The study sample 26,232 students (53.4% females; mean age = 14.62, SD 1.69) participating California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS),...

Restorative justice (RJ) is an alternative approach to school discipline that has been gaining recognition in the public and academic spheres as a way engage students who misbehave school. RJ promise address racial/ethnic, gender, disability disproportionality discipline. One aspect of school-based received almost no attention literature professional development ongoing support teachers schools using RJ. This article provides review extant on RJ, teacher training, consultation methods....

This study examined the association between two characteristics of school climate (sense community and teacher support, measured both at individual level) students' feelings being unsafe school. The involved a sample 49,638 students aged 10-18 years who participated in 2010-2012 California Healthy Kids Survey. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), our findings revealed that, level, perceiving higher levels sense support were less likely to feel within environment. At was negatively...

This introduction to a special issue of the Journal School Violence briefly describes current challenges in school discipline and its relation violence as rationale for designing prevention-oriented contexts. is critical issue, disruptive behaviors significantly impact climate classroom instruction. Suspension most common response problem ranging from mild severe. However, suspension ineffective teaching alternative proactive behaviors, may have opposite effect exacerbating undesirable...

Although the psychological impacts of cyberbullying victimization (CBV) have been documented, research is inconclusive about role contextual factors in association between CBV and student engagement. Sampling 16,237 adolescents from 43 schools Delaware, we used multilevel modeling to test how was associated with emotional cognitive-behavioral engagement at both school levels, control for demographic traditional bullying (TBV). We also examined moderating effects climate grade level on had a...

Objective: Studies on protective factors for school victimization are rare and usually focus specific assets.The current study examined the association between quantity variety of domains developmental assets in adolescence.Method: Data were drawn from California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS; N ϭ 11,790 high students attending 17 schools).The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) was administered as part a federally funded climate initiative spring 2013.A mixed-effects modeling...

Limited research has explored how the characteristics of student and teacher racial/ethnic composition may explain students' perceptions school climate. This study used stratified analysis to assess associations two prominent diversity aspects (i.e., diversity) with perceived Particularly, this controlled for student- school-levels demographic among 41,237 Latinx students 23,819 White from 7th grade 12th enrolled in 250 California public schools. The findings indicated that higher had a mild...

Educators are often on the frontline of supporting well-being their students. Thus, it is critical to ask teachers what they need in regard implementing trauma-informed practices schools (TIPS). This mixed-methods, community-initiated needs assessment explored educators' and use resources. A random selection 450 certificated school staff from two districts was invited participate. (n = 178; 39.5% response rate) completed a survey, four focus groups were conducted 14) obtain feedback factors...

Background factors that correlate with juvenile delinquency are consistent across the interdisciplinary literature base. Yet, information about process of how risks relate to outcomes, especially within school settings, is limited. Researchers used qualitative methods examine and interpersonal experiences from perspective offenders their families. Sixteen families were recruited probation facilities in 2 different geographic regions. Consensual Qualitative Research yielded themes, including...