Characteristics of the Study Population
Children With Teacher Report Data of Bullying (N = 4364) | Children With Self and Peer Report Data of Bullying (N = 1327)a | |||
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Nb | % | N | % | |
Child characteristics | ||||
Gender (% boys) | 2206 | 50.6 | 645 | 48.6 |
National origin | ||||
Dutch | 2313 | 54.5 | 776 | 60.0 |
Other western | 379 | 8.9 | 143 | 11.0 |
Nonwestern | 1549 | 36.5 | 375 | 29.0 |
Wt status | ||||
Normal wt | 3526 | 80.8 | 1106 | 83.4 |
Overweight | 595 | 13.6 | 161 | 12.1 |
Obese | 243 | 5.6 | 60 | 4.5 |
Mean age at BMI assessment in years (SD) | 4364 | 6.2 (0.5) | 1327 | 6.1 (0.5) |
Bullying involvement | ||||
Uninvolved | 2846 | 65.2 | 872 | 65.7 |
Victim | 193 | 4.4 | 193 | 14.5 |
Bully | 715 | 16.4 | 162 | 12.2 |
Bully–victim | 610 | 14.0 | 100 | 7.5 |
Mean age at bullying assessment in years (SD) | 3757 | 6.8 (1.3) | 1327 | 7.7 (0.8) |
Maternal and family characteristics | ||||
Educational level | ||||
Primary or secondary | 1734 | 47.4 | 411 | 36.2 |
Higher vocational | 958 | 26.2 | 353 | 31.0 |
Academic | 967 | 26.4 | 372 | 32.8 |
Single parenthood (% yes) | 550 | 15.0 | 170 | 14.8 |
Presence of siblings (% no) | 677 | 20.0 | 218 | 19.4 |