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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2015 Jan 5;135(2):e496–e509. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-1864

TABLE 1.

Included Studies

Authors (Year, Country) Sample (n)/ES statistic Age Range/Mean Age/Grade Level/% Malea Location of Study/Study Design ES Used in Analysis
Baldry & Winkel (2003, Italy)40 998/C 14–19/NA/NA/57 SC/CS VI
Bauman, Toomey, & Walker (2013, USA)41 1491/C NA/NA/9–12/51 SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI/BVA/BVI
Bonanno & Hymel (2010, Canada)42 399/C NA/14.2/8–10/43 SC/CS VI
Bonanno & Hymel (2013, Canada)43 399/C NA/14.2/8–10/43 SC/CS BI/VI
Borowsky, Taliaferro, & McMorris (2013, US)44 130908/OR NA/NA/6, 9,12/50 SC/CS BA/VA/BVA/BVI
Cheng et al (2010, China)45 9015/OR 13–15/NA/7, 10/48 SC/CS VIa
Coggan, Bennett, Hooper, & Dickinson (2003, New Zealand)46 3265/OR 9–13/NA/NA/44 SC/CS VA/VI
Cui, Cheng, Xu, Chen, & Wang (2010, China)47 8778/OR 11–17/14/NA/49 SC/SD VA/VIa
Delfabbro et al (2006, Australia)48 1284/OR NA/15.2/NA/40 SC/CS VI
Espelage & Holt (2013, US)38 661/OR 10–13/NA/5, 8/49 SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI/BVA/BVI
Fisher, Moffitt, Houts, Belsky, Arseneault, & Caspi (2012, UK)49 1116/OR NA/12/NA/49 O/PL VA
Fleming & Jacobsen (2009a, Chile)50 8131/OR 13–15/14/NA/48 SC/CS VIb
Fleming & Jacobsen (2009b, 19 countries)29 104614/OR 13–15/14/NA/46 SC/SD VIb
Gower & Borowsky (2013, US)51 128681/OR 11–17/NA/6, 9, 12/50 SC/CS BI/VI
Hay & Meldrum (2010, US)52 426/C 10–21/15/NA/50 SC/CS VI
Heilbron & Prinstein (2010, US)53 493/C 11–14/13/6, 8/49 SC/PL VI
Henry, Lovegrove, Steger, Chen, Cigularov, & Tomazic (2013, US)54 2936/C NA/NA/6, 12/50 SC/CS BI/V
Hepburn, Azrael, Molnar, & Miller (2012, US)55 1838/OR NA/NA/9, 12/NA SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI
Herba et al (2008, The Netherlands)6 1526/OR NA/12/NA/NA SC/PL VI/BVI
Hinduja & Patchin (2010, US)56 1963/OR 10–16/13/6, 8/50 SC/CS BA/VA
Holt, Chee, Ng, & Bossler (2013, Singapore)57 3096/OR NA/NA/NA/56 SC/CS VI
Ivarsson, Broberg, Arvidsson, & Gillberg (2005, Sweden)58 183/OR 13–16/14/NA/49 SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI/BVA/BVI
Kaltiala-Heino, Rimpelä, Marttunen, Rimpelä, & Rantanen (1999, Finland)7 16410/OR 14–16/15/8, 9/51 SC/CS BI/VI/BVI
Kessel Schneider, O’Donnell, Stueve, & Coulter (2012, US)59 20406/OR NA/NA/9, 12/50 SC/CS VA/VI
Kim, Leventhal, & Koh (2009, Korea)37 1655/OR NA/14/7, 8/55 SC/PL BA/BI/VA/VI/BVA/BVI
Klomek, Marrocco, Kleinman, Schonfeld, & Gould (2007, US)8 2342/OR 13–19/15/9, 12/58 SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI
Kowalski & Limber (2013, US)60 931/SMD 11–19/15/6, 12/58 SC/CS BI/VI/BVI
Laukkanen, Honkalampi, Hintikka, Hintikka, & Lehtonen (2005, Finland)5 168/OR 11–23/18/NA/58 MH/CS VI
LeVasseur, Kelvin, & Grosskopf (2013, US)61 11488/OR NA/NA/9, 12/48 SC/CS VA
Liang, Flisher, & Lombard (2007, South Africa)62 5074/OR NA/16/8, 11/42 SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI/BVA/BVI
Litwiller & Brausch (2013, US)63 4693/C 14–19/16.11/NA/47 SC/CS BA
Luukkonen, Räsänen, Hakko, & Riala (2009, Finland)22 508/OR 12–17/NA/NA/41 MH/CS BA/VA/BVA
Mark et al (2013, Estonia, Lithuania, & Luxembourg)64 4954/OR 14–17/16/NA/51 SC/CS BI/VI
Mills, Guerin, Lynch, Daly, & Fitzpatrick (2004, Ireland)65 209/OR 12–15/14/NA/46 O/CS VA/VI
Park, Schepp, Jang, & Koo (2006, South Korea)66 1312/OR NA/NA/10, 12/50 SC/CS VI
Patrick, Bell, Huang, Lazarakis, & Edwards (2013, US)67 26523/OR NA/NA/8, 10, 12/48 SC/CS VI
Pranjić & Bajraktarević (2010, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)68 290/OR NA/17/NA/51 SC/CS VI
Rigby & Slee (1999, Australia)9 1103/C 12–18/15/NA/49 SC/CS BI/VI
Rigby & Slee (1999, Australia)9 845/C 12–16/14/NA/53 SC/CS BI/VI
Rivers & Noret (2013, UK)69 1592/SMD 12–16/14/NA/54 SC/CS BI/VI/BVI
Roland (2002, Norway)70 2088/C NA/14/8/49 SC/CS BI/VI
Romero, Wiggs, Valencia, & Bauman (2013, US)71 650/C 14–18/16/9, 12/0 SC/CS BA/BI/VA/VI
Skapinakis et al (2011, Greece)72 2431/OR 16–18/NA/10, 12/41 SC/CS VI
Turner, Exum, Brame, & Holt (2013, US)73 1874/SMD 11–18/14/6, 12/49 SC/CS VI
Undheim (2013, Norway)39 2464/SMD 12–15/14/49 SC/PL BI/VI
van der Wall, De Wit, & Hirasing (2003, The Netherlands)74 4721/OR 9–13/NA/NA/50 SC/CS BI/VI
Viljoen et al (2005, Canada)75 243/OR 13–19/16/NA/80 O/CS BA/BI/VA/VI/BVA/BVI

BA, bullying-attempts; BI, bullying-ideation; BVA, bully-victim-attempt; BVI, bully-victim-ideation; C, correlation; CS, cross-sectional; ES, effect size; H, hospital; MH, mental health facility; NA, not applicable or not provided; O, other; PL, prospective longitudinal; SC, school; SD, secondary data; SMD, standardized mean difference or d; VA, victim-attempts; VI, victim-ideation. Cheng and colleagues (2010) and Cui and colleagues (2010) use the same Global Student Health Survey (GSHS) dataset from China; however, they use different strategies for selecting bullying victims. For example, victims in the Cheng et al (2010) study were categorized as “ever victimization” versus “never victimization,” but the Cui et al (2010) study categorizes victims as reporting “never or rarely victimized” versus “sometimes bullied.”

Both Fleming and Jacobsen (2009) studies use data from the GSHS. Effect sizes for Chile were removed from the effect sizes representing the Fleming and Jacobsen (2009b) study because Fleming and Jacobsen (2009a) use Chile data. Similarly, because Cui et al (2010) and Cheng et al (2010) used GSHS from China, effect sizes from China representing the Fleming and Jacobsen (2009b) study were not used in analyses.