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  • Title: School social cohesion, student-school connectedness, and bullying in Colombian adolescents.
    Author: Springer AE, Cuevas Jaramillo MC, Ortiz Gómez Y, Case K, Wilkinson A.
    Journal: Glob Health Promot; 2016 Dec; 23(4):37-48. PubMed ID: 25878143.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Student-school connectedness is inversely associated with multiple health risk behaviors, yet research is limited on the relative contributions of a student's connectedness with school and an overall context of school social cohesion to peer victimization/bullying. PURPOSE: We examined associations of perceived school cohesion and student-school connectedness with physical victimization, verbal victimization, and social exclusion in the past six months in adolescents in grades 6-11 (N = 774) attending 11 public and private urban schools in Colombia. METHODS: Cross-sectional data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using mixed-effects linear regression models. RESULTS: Higher perceived school cohesion was inversely related with exposure to three bullying types examined (p < 0.05); student-school connectedness was negatively related to verbal victimization among girls only (p < 0.01). In full models, school cohesion maintained inverse associations with three bullying types after controlling for student-school connectedness (p ≤ 0.05). CONCLUSION: Enhancing school cohesion may hold benefits for bullying prevention beyond a student's individual school connectedness.
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