Do Neighbors Have More Peaceful Students? Youth Violence Profiles among Adolescents in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia

Dóra Eszter Várnai, Marta Malinowska-Cieślik, Andrea Madarasová Gecková, Ladislav Csémy and Zsolt Horváth
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Dóra Eszter Várnai: Department of Clinical Psychology and Addictology, Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Lorand Univesity, 1064 Budapest, Hungary
Marta Malinowska-Cieślik: Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, 31-008 Krakow, Poland
Andrea Madarasová Gecková: Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Institute of Applied Psychology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynské Luhy 4, 821 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Ladislav Csémy: Department of Public Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, 250 67 Klecany, Czech Republic
Zsolt Horváth: Department of Clinical Psychology and Addictology, Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Lorand Univesity, 1064 Budapest, Hungary

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-17

Abstract: (1) Background: Co-occurrence or overlaps of different forms or involvement in peer violence among adolescents have been broadly studied. The study aimed to assess adolescents’ violence profiles related to bullying, cyberbullying, and fighting in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The study was to investigate the pattern of bullying, cyberbullying, and fighting involvement among adolescents in these four countries to test the stability of previously identified profiles. (2) Methods: We analyzed the data from the 2017/2018 international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey, which used proportionate sampling among adolescents aged 11–15 years old ( n = 24,501). A Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was performed to determine violence profiles in each country. (3) Results: In Slovakia, three distinct latent classes were identified, primarily cyber victims, school bullies, and those involved in multiple forms, and in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland bully victims was the fourth class. (4) Conclusions: The findings suggest that peer violence prevention programs in adolescents should consider violence profiles and multiple involvements.

Keywords: bullying; perpetration; victimization; cyberbullying; latent class analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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