title: The View From the Bottom: Relative Deprivation and Bullying Victimization in Canadian Adolescents.
abstract: We investigated the relation between relative deprivation (RD)-disparity in affluence between adolescents and their more affluent schoolmates-and involvement in bullying among 23,383 students (aged 9-19) in 413 schools that participated in the 2010 Canadian Health Behavior in School-Aged Children survey. Students reported family affluence and frequency of bullying victimization and perpetration during the previous 2 months. Using the Yitzhaki index of RD and multinomial logistic regression analysis, we found that RD positively related to three types of bullying victimization (physical, relational, and cyberbullying) and to two types of perpetration (relational and cyberbullying) after differences in absolute affluence were held constant. These findings suggest that RD uniquely contributes to risk of bullying involvement.
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada anthony.napoletano@mail.mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Napoletano
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Frank J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Elgar
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Grace
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saul
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dirks
authors.affiliation: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Craig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D058445:Bullying / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: bullying; mental health and violence; youth violence