Bullying
In year 2006, a collaborative research with CABCY was conducted to gain insights to the prevalence of bullying in Singapore.
4315 students (aged 7 to 17) were surveyed using the PRAQ and DINO Map instruments.
The results from DINO Map showed that 94.7% of students subjected to at least on of the 21 encounters such as:
- Being kicked
- Being teased
- Being mimicked
- Being excluded
- Receiving nasty email
- Recieving nasty sms
- Recieving nasty mms
- Recieving prank calls
- Being hit
- Being called names
- Being gossiped
- Being tricked
- Being pushed
- Being criticised
- Being laughed at
- Being sworn at
- Being stalked
- Being given the worse job at group work
- Victim of malicious rumours
- Being ganged on
- Being showned rude fingers
The PRAQ survey found 12.72% of students reporting that they have being bullied on a weekly basis, that is, about 1 in every 8 child.
A more detailed report of this research will be presented in the book written by Ms Esther Ng and Dr Ken Rigby.
Cyber Bullying
A similar research was conducted together with Dr Chelsea Chew surveying 3488 students.
It was found that 25% reported that they had ever been cyber bullied before through at least one of the cyber platforms whilst 31% of them said that they experienced cyber bullying on top of being bullied in school.
Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth (CABCY) is an organisation fully sponsored and supported by HRTD. Please visit CABCY's website.
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