title: The effects of single-sex versus coeducational schools on adolescent peer victimization and perpetration.
abstract: Bullying is a growing public health concern for South Korean adolescents. In our quantitative investigation, we analyze the frequency with which Korean adolescents in single-sex versus coeducational schools are targets of or engage in three peer aggressive behaviors (verbal, relational (social exclusion), and physical (including theft)). We use two nationally representative datasets, the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the 2005 Korea Education Longitudinal Study (KELS), and rely on propensity score matching (PSM). For adolescent girls, we find that being in all-girls schools mitigates both their exposure to and engagement in peer victimization. For adolescent boys, we find that boys in all-boys schools have significantly higher odds of experiencing more frequent verbal and physical attacks versus their counterparts in coeducational schools. Our findings strongly suggest that interventions to mitigate peer victimization and aggression in Korea should consider the gendered schooling contexts in which they are implemented.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: kagee@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Kevin A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Gee
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, 25-2, Sungkyunkwan-Ro, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: chomh@skku.edu.
authors.forename: Rosa Minhyo
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Ordered logistic regression; Peer aggression; Peer victimization; Propensity score matching; Single-sex schools; South Korea