Associação entre clima escolar e ocorrência do bullying entre adolescentes: SP-proso, 2017.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the association between school climate and bullying victimization and perpetration among public and private school adolescents from city of São Paulo, Brazil. The data are from the SP-PROSO (São Paulo Project for the social development of children and adolescents, in English). Our sample is representative for Brazilian adolescents from the ninth-grade fundamental school (n= 1.939 students from the 119 schools). The school climate was our exposition and assessed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which we identified three factors: “positive climate”, “disorder climate”, and “low legitimacy”. The school climates were divided in terciles (1st tercile for low exposition and 3rd for high exposition). The bullying perpetration and victimization were our outcomes and stratified in forms: practiced/suffered at least one form of bullying; social exclusion; verbal/psychological bullying; physical bullying; vandalism; sexual harassment. We assessed prevalence of sociodemographic characteristics and bullying and its forms, performed association between climate school and forms of bullying by adjusted multivariate logistic regression followed 95% confidence interval, and estimated their p-trend value. Our study showed that positive climate school was associated to lower perpetration (OR2º tercile =0,46, 95%CI:0,31; OR3ºtercile=0,30; 95%CI:0,25-0,59, p-trend value<0,01) and victimization of at least one form of bullying (OR2º tercile=0 ,58, 95%CI:0,41 -0,81; OR3ºtercile=0,52 , 95%CI:0,38 – 0,70 p-trend value<0,01). Conversely, the disorder and low legitimacy climate were associated to higher likely bullying perpetration and victimization. Our results can support intervention strategies of the control of bullying among adolescents.