Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Canadian Journal of School Psychology
This Article
Right arrow Résumé
Right arrow Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
0829573509331614v1
24/1/82    most recent
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Konishi, C.
Right arrow Articles by Kwak, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Investigating the Comparability of a Self-Report Measure of Childhood Bullying Across Countries

Chiaki Konishi

University of British Columbia

Shelley Hymel

University of British Columbia

Bruno D. Zumbo

University of British Columbia

Zhen Li

University of British Columbia

Mitsuru Taki

National Institute for Educational Policy Research, Tokyo

Phillip Slee

Flinders University

Debra Pepler

York University

Hee-og Sim

Kunsan National University

Wendy Craig

Queen's University

Susan Swearer

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Keumjoo Kwak

Seoul National University

Responding to international concerns regarding childhood bullying and a need to identify a common bullying measure, this study examines the comparability of children's self-reports of bullying across five countries. The Pacific-Rim Bullying Measure, a self-report measure of students' experiences with six different types of bullying behaviour and victimization, was administered to 1,398 Grade 5 students from Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and United States. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory modeling were used to evaluate construct equivalence on the measure across different countries. Preliminary results revealed some construct differences across countries, that is, the bullying measure is measuring one construct, but that the construct is manifested differently in the different countries.

Key Words: bullying • comparability • measure • cross-national study

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Canadian Journal of School Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 1, 82-93 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0829573509331614
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?