Prevalence of bullying and victimization among children in early elementary school: Do family and school neighbourhood socioeconomic status matter?

Table 1 Prevalence of victimization and bullying for all children and by gender

		Percentage based on past 3 months
Items		Never^#	Monthly	Weekly^§
Victimization
Physical	All	91.7	7.1	1.2
	Boys	88.0	9.9 ^a	2.1 ^b
	Girls	95.6	4.2	0.2
Verbal	All	89.4	9.2	1.4
	Boys	87.5	10.8 ^a	1.7 ^b
	Girls	91.5	7.4	1.1
Relational	All	91.1	7.6	1.3
	Boys	91.6	6.8 ^a	1.6 ^b
	Girls	90.7	8.4	0.9
Material	All	99.3	0.7	0.1
	Boys	99.0	0.9 ^a	0.1
	Girls	99.5	0.5	0
Bullying
Physical	All	84.1	11.3	4.6
	Boys	76.6	16.1 ^a	7.3 ^b
	Girls	92.0	6.3	1.7
Verbal	All	77.9	16.8	5.3
	Boys	73.2	19.4 ^a	7.4 ^b
	Girls	82.9	14.0	3.1
Relational	All	83.4	13.8	2.8
	Boys	85.6	11.4 ^a	2.9
	Girls	81.1	16.3	2.6
Material	All	97.1	2.4	0.5
Material	Boys	96.0	3.2 * ^a	0.9 ^b
	Girls	98.3	1.5	0.2

Notes Table 1: ^# Never or less than once per month.
^§ The categories of “One to two times per week” and “More than twice per week” were collapsed into the category “Weekly” due to very low prevalences.
^a Prevalence of never vs. monthly or ^b vs. weekly involvement in bullying differs significantly between boys and girls, p < 0.05.

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