Citation

Priest N, King T, Bécares L, Kavanagh AM. Am. J. Public Health 2016; 106(10): 1882-1884.

Affiliation

Naomi Priest and Tania King are with the Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University, and the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Laia Bécares is with the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Anne M. Kavanagh is with the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2016.303328

PMID

27552271

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To compare the prevalence of bullying victimization and racial discrimination by ethnicity.

METHODS: We completed a cross-sectional analysis of 3956 children aged 12 to 13 years from wave 5 (2011-2012) of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.

RESULTS: Bullying victimization and racial discrimination were weakly associated and differently patterned by ethnicity. Children from visible minorities reported less bullying victimization but more racial discrimination than did their peers with Australian-born parents. Indigenous children reported the highest risk of bullying victimization and racial discrimination.

CONCLUSIONS: Peer victimization and racial discrimination each require specific attention as unique childhood stressors. A focus on general bullying victimization alone may miss unique stress exposures experienced by children from stigmatized ethnic backgrounds. , (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print August 23, 2016: e1-e3. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303328).

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