**3.2 The bully victimization "experience" across environments**

### **3.2.1 Distress**

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Eighteen percent of youth reported being bullies in the past year. Table 3 shows bullying rates by environment. The school-online overlap was similar to that noted for victims: among youth who bullied in either place, 59% bullied only at school, 10% bullied only

As shown in the Figure, the majority of youth were not victims (60%) or perpetrators (82%) of bullying in any environment. For those who were involved in bullying, the most common experience was victimization (20%) or perpetration (9%) in one environment. Fewer reported being victimized (9%) or perpetrating (4%) across two environments. Very few reported being bullied or bullying others in four or all five of the environments queried.

Environment

Every day / almost every day 0.2 (5) 0.4 (7) Once or twice a week 1.7 (14) 1.3 (9) Once or twice a month 2.1 (17) 2.9 (29) Less often 13.7 (169) 13.0 (154) Never 82.3 (944) 82.4 (950)

Table 4. 1-year unwanted sexual experiences victimization rates across environments

(n=1,149) % (n)

Frequency School

**# of different environments youth perpetrate bullying**

2 1 1

9

3

83

0 environments 1 environment 2 environments 3 environments 4 environments 5 environments

> Internet (n=1,149) % (n)

online, and 31% bullied both online and at school.

**# of different environments youth** 

<sup>60</sup> <sup>20</sup>

0 environments 1 environment 2 environments 3 environments 4 environments 5 environments

**3.1.3 Unwanted sexual experiences** 

Fig. 1. Overlap of bullying experiences across environments

**are victimized by bullying**

<sup>6</sup> <sup>3</sup> <sup>2</sup>

9

Youth who reported being bullied were asked to indicate how they felt about the most serious incident in each environment they were bullied. As shown in Table 5, more youth reported being upset by their most serious bullying incident at school (37.5%) than any other environment.


Table 5. The bully victimization expereince: Victim distress and knowing one's perpetrator (n=1,149)
