An eighteen‑year longitudinal examination of school victimization and weapon use in California secondary schools

作     者：Rami Benbenishty Ron Avi Astor Ilan Roziner Rami Benbenishty;Ron Avi Astor;Ilan Roziner

作者机构：Hebrew University of JerusalemJerusalemIsrael and Universidad Andrés BelloSantiagoChile Crump Chair in Social WelfareLuskin School of Public Affairs and School of Education and Information StudiesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesLos AngelesCA 90095USA Sackler School of MedicineDepartment of Communication DisordersTel Aviv UniversityTel AvivIsrael 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Pediatrics》 (世界儿科杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第19卷第11期

页      面：1082-1093页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：School violence School climate Weapons 

摘      要：Background School safety has been a major public health issue in the United States and internationally for more than three *** policies and programs have been developed and implemented to prevent school violence,improve the school climate,and increase *** are only a few peer-reviewed studies of changes in school violence over *** study examined changes over time in school victimization,weapon involvement and school climate,comparing change trajectories by gender and race and different change trajectories among *** A longitudinal study of the biennial California Healthy Kids Survey in secondary schools from 2001 to *** representative sample included 6,219,166 students in grades 7,9,and 11(48.8%male)from 3253 schools(66%high schools).Results All victimization and weapon involvement items had significant and substantial linear *** largest reduction involved being in a physical fight(from 25.4%to 11.0%).There were reductions in weapon involvement(d=0.46)and victimization(d=0.38).Biased-based victimization only declined slightly(d=−0.05).School belongingness and safety increased(d=0.27),adult support increased a small amount(d=0.05),and student participation declined(d=−0.10).Changes were smallest among White ***-five percent of the schools showed the same pattern of *** The findings are in contrast to the public’s concerns that school violence is a growing *** in school violence may result from social investment in school safety.A distinction should be made between school shootings and other forms of school violence.