Table 2.

Form of Victimization Experienced by Boys and Girls in Middle School and High School

Form of bullying reported	Middle school			High school
	Boys (n = 5,688) n (%)	Girls (n = 5,720) n (%)	Total (n = 11,408) n (%)	Boys (n = 2,891) n (%)	Girls (n = 8,611) n (%)	Total (n = 5,790) n (%)
Called bad names	2,243 (39.43)	2,288 (40.00)	4,531 (39.72) ns	956 (32.98)	815 (28.19)	1,771 (30.59)*
Threaten to hurt/hit	1,510 (26.55)	1,107 (19.35)	2,617 (22.94)*	731 (25.22)	428 (14.80)	1,159 (20.02)*
Teased	2,151 (37.82)	2,321 (40.58)	4,472 (39.20) ns	923 (31.84)	837 (28.95)	1,760 (30.40) ns
Push/shove	1,896 (33.33)	1,502 (26.26)	3,398 (29.79)*	734 (25.32)	468 (16.19)	1,202 (20.76)*
Hit/slap/kick	1,567 (27.55)	1,118 (19.55)	2,685 (23.54)*	727 (25.08)	383 (13.25)	1,110 (19.17)*
Cyberbullied	385 (6.77)	522 (9.13)	907 (7.95)*	329 (11.35)	316 (10.93)	645 (11.14) ns
Spread rumors/lies	1,518 (26.69)	1,960 (34.27)	3,478 (30.49)*	700 (24.15)	862 (29.82)	1,562 (26.98)*
Exclude/ignore	1,084 (18.42)	1,569 (27.43)	2,617 (22.94)*	587 (20.25)	607 (21.00)	1,194 (20.62) ns
Sexual comments	956 (16.81)	1,242 (21.71)	2,198 (19.27)*	628 (21.66)	796 (27.53)	1,424 (24.59)*
Stole property	1,263 (22.20)	1,149 (20.09)	2,412 (21.14) ns	571 (19.70)	421 (14.56)	992 (17.13)*

Note. Numbers indicate those who experienced that form of victimization (i.e., responded yes). An asterisk indicates significant gender difference on chi-square test within school-level at p < .001, whereas ns indicates nonsignificant difference. A separate set of chi-square tests indicated that there were significant differences (p < .001) between the full sample of middle and high school students on all 10 items. There also were significant gender differences (p < .001) between the full sample of boys and girls for all variables except called bad names and teased.