Differences in Bully/Victim Problems between Early Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and their Non-Disabled Peers

Autor/inn/en	Carlson, Eric J.; Flannery, Michelle Crow; Kral, Melissa Steinbring
Titel	Differences in Bully/Victim Problems between Early Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and their Non-Disabled Peers
Quelle	(2005), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Victims of Crime; Early Adolescents; Special Education; Learning Disabilities; Student Attitudes; Bullying; Middle School Students; Student Behavior; Correlation; Student Characteristics; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Schülerverhalten; Mobbing; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Student behaviour; Korrelation
Abstract	This study explored the differences of bully/victim problems between early adolescents receiving special education services under the primary category of Learning Disabilities (LD), and their non-disabled peers. Subjects involved were 54 male and female students, grades 6-8, attending a suburban middle school in Minnesota. They were administered the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (Olweus, 1996). Independent samples T-tests indicated a mean difference between regular education students and students with LD educational classification in self-reported levels of being bullied, (p is less than .001). In particular, the children in special education endorsed significantly more incidences of being bullied than their regular education counterparts. Moreover, the data suggested that lack of protective influences, such as liking school and number of friends, was negatively correlated with increased self-reported victimization and bullying behavior. Limitations to this study include, but are not limited to, small sample size, especially students with a special education label. This study also highlights the importance of implementing a bully prevention program in schools and outlines some bully-prevention strategies to be used in a school setting. (Author).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10