Teens' take on bullying

Friday, November 12, 2010 - 11:10 in Health & Medicine

Both the bully and the victim's individual characteristics, rather than the wider social environment, explain why bullying occurs, according to Swedish teenagers. The new study, by Dr Robert Thornberg and Sven Knutsen from Linkoeping University in Sweden, also shows that 42 percent of teenagers blamed the victim for the bullying. The study is published online in Springer's journal, Child and Youth Care Forum...

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