Bullying at School What we know and what we can do Dan Olweus BCopyright © Dan Olwevs 1993 Tia right of Dan Obes o be Wns a author of this wek as ee assotedin accordace with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Aat 198K, Feat publishod 1998 epee 1995 ake Pubes IN Coney He istord, OXF TIF UR 254 Ma Ste Cambie, Mt Usa schusetis 02142 All igh reserved. Except for the quotation of hort pasts for ‘of cris and review, no part of thi pul te a retmeval seen or transi in any oon or by any ms, lst mechanical photocopying recording or one ie, wichout te riot permission of the publisher pine tion may be rpreuun, sored the United States of Aric this bak i old subject to dhe rosy of trade or othernise, be lent, re-sakh i therwiseerclated withovt the publishers prior cures any frm ‘of binding or cover other than thot in which cf published and wise ‘lar condhtion including this concition ben psc the suet prchaser iti Library Catalog in Publication Dats ACIP catalogue record forthis book swale fom the Brits Lila. Libvaryof Congress Cataloging ie Publication Data Obes. Da, 1991 ‘allying a chou: what we know and wha we can ds Dan Once, Te cm. (Understanding children's worlds) Includes KbLogeaphial references ip.) andindes. ISON 1-63-1928 IN O-6)I 19241 IC tchavior assessment of elder 2, Bois Mk \. Nagessveness(Pspellogy in chldeen Tile. HL Sori URNS ogy 1998 veaivos 18s dao cr Typeset in HLS 013.5 pe Sabon by Plaxo graphics, Honiton, Devon Prited i Grea Brita by Hartnols Lh, Bodin hic hook is printed on aire paper HEH? aR Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part | What We Know About Bullying 5 Stories from the Press 7 What is Meant by Bullying? 8 Some Information About the Recent Studies 10 One Student out of Seven 13 Bully/Victim Problems in Different Grades 14 Have Bull/Victin Problems Increased? 7 Bullying Among Boys and Girls 18 How Much Do the Teachers Do? How Much Do the Parents Know? 20 Bullying at School and on the Way to and from School 21 Comparison between Norway and Sweden 21 Js Bullying Primarily a Big-City Problem? 23 The Size of the School ard the Class 23 Supervision during Recess and Lunch Time 25 On Analyses at Different Levels 26 Stability of Bully/Viction Problems over Time 7What We Can Do About Bullying An overview of the proposed intervention program can be found on p. 64. Refore discussing. the specific measures. however, | would like to mention that a few years ago this program was presented in detail to a total of 540 teachers in 20 different schools in Goteborg, Sweden. The teachers were given an opportunity to express their views of the pro- posed intervention measures (in a questionnaire) and to report whether they intended to use the program in their own classrooms. Briefly stated, 87 percent of the reachers considered the intervention program good.” Farther, more than owo-thirds of the teachers planned to use ait Teast some of the proposed measures in their own classrooms, and another 25 percent believed they would do so, These results demonstrate that the program is well-founded in the realities of daily school life, and that teachers feel char it is both possible and desirable te implement the proposed intervention program in their own classes and schools. Similar results have been obtained trom a group of approximately S00 Norwegian teachers.