If you get a chance, can you copy out the message for those of us who choose not to register on the Times website? I would be interested in reading it.
I got the hint the first time. Do you mind sharing why, if you're so interested, you don't just read it on the Times site? Unless your reason has something to do with a need to suffer, in which case I don't want to know. <g>
Karen
<snip>Of the students surveyed in the study, 10.6 percent reported that they had been bullied "sometimes" or "weekly," 13 percent that they had bullied others and 6.3 percent that they had been both the perpetrator and the target of bullying.
Bullying was more frequent among junior high students than among high school students, the researchers found, and male students were more likely to report involvement on either side of the bullying equation than were girls. And both the bullies and the bullied reported difficulties in psychological and social adjustment, though their problems took different forms.<snip>
<snip>There is at least some evidence suggesting that bullying in the classroom can lead to a higher risk of crime in adulthood. Dr. Nansel cited work by Dr. Dan Olweus at the University of Bergen in Norway finding that children who bullied other students were four times more likely than their peers to be convicted of crimes by the age of 24. Thirty-five percent to 40 percent of the former bullies had three or more criminal convictions by their mid-20's, Dr. Olweus and his colleagues found.
Studies in Norway and other countries have also indicated that both bullies and their victims are likely to have more psychological problems than students who remain uninvolved.
Dr. Nansel and her colleagues also found that students who bullied others reported more difficulties than their classmates.
Both the bullies and the bullied engaged in more fighting at school or elsewhere than their peers.
But while the bullies were more likely to smoke, use alcohol and receive poor grades, the students who were targets reported more loneliness and trouble making friends.
The most troubled group appeared to be the students who said they had both bullied others and been bullied, the researchers found. Like the bullied, they were lonely and had trouble making friends. But like the bullies, they also did poorly in school and were likely to report smoking cigarettes and using alcohol.
"Youth who bully others and are bullied may represent an especially high-risk group," Dr. Nansel and her colleagues wrote.
Belittling insults about looks or speech were a common form of bullying cited by the subjects. Girls were more likely to bullied with rumors or sexual remarks. For boys, slapping, hitting or pushing were more frequent. Racial or religious insults were the least likely to be reported by the subjects in the study.
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