Measuring 8 to 12 year old children’s self-report of power imbalance in relation to bullying: development of the Scale of Perceived Power Imbalance

Table 5 Comparison of children’s self-report of victimization with power imbalance by instrument

	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Percent
Did not report victimization with perceived power imbalance by either scale	149	45.0	45.0
Reported victimization with perceived power imbalance by combined rank score of APRI+SPPI only	103	31.1	76.1
Reported bully victimization by OBQ only	12	3.6	79.8
Reported victimization with power imbalance by APRI & SPPI and OBQ	67	20.2	100.0

Note: (n = 331). Fifty-five precent of children reported victimization in a relationship of power imbalance: 51.3% by the combined ranked scale of the APRI and SPPI, and 23.8% by the OBQ prevalence item. The overlap between instruments was 20.2%

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