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Racialized bullying is increasingly recognized as a form of bullying that can significantly affect students’ mental health and well-being. Despite it being more prevalent among racialized students, there are few findings documenting its impact on individual outcomes. The present paper draws data from the Health and Peer Relations Study, a representative survey across schools in Ontario. Participants were 10,666 students (34.3% racialized, 48% girls, Mage=12.56, SD=2.38), who completed measures of bullying victimization, attributions for victimization, and emotional problems (depression, anxiety). Compared to 3.2% of White students, 21.2% of racialized reported being bullied because of their race/ethnicity. Multilevel modeling analyses (students nested within schools; ICC=0.02) indicated that racialized students experienced lower levels of emotional problems compared to White students (b=-0.07, SE=0.01); however, students who reported being bullied because of their race/ethnicity experienced more emotional problems compared to those who did not (b=0.13, SE=0.02). Our results are among the first in the Canadian literature to demonstrate the impact of racialized bullying on mental health which have significant implications for identifying risk factors among racialized students.
Keywords
racialized bullying; identity-based bullying
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Quantitative method study |
