Table 2.

Prevalence of victimisation and perpetration experiences by types and gender

Type of exposure	Male (n=646) %	Female (n=718) %	Total (n=1364) %	p value
Online victimisation	54.8	49.9	52.2	0.068
Types*
Online harassment	52.2	43.3	47.5	<0.001
Sexual solicitation	17.2	20.8	19.1	0.094
Frequency of victimisation				0.002
Frequent victimisation	19.3	12.4	15.7
Infrequent victimisation	35.4	37.5	36.5
No victimisation	45.2	50.1	47.8
Online Perpetration	37.6	27.0	32.0	<0.001
Types*
Online harassment	37.2	27.0	31.8	<0.001
Sexual solicitation	5.3	0.4	2.7	<0.001
Frequency of perpetration				<0.001
Frequent perpetration	14.1	6.8	10.3
Infrequent perpetration	23.5	20.2	21.8
No perpetration	62.4	73.0	68.0
Offline victimisation	58.2	62.3	60.3	0.127
Types*
Physical	50.2	47.8	48.9	0.379
Sexual	17.0	17.0	17.0	0.986
Psychological	26.3	39.8	33.4	<0.001
Multiple types of offline victimisation
None	37.7	41.8	39.7	0.130
1	30.5	28.7	29.5
≥2	27.8	33.5	30.8
Offline perpetration	39.3	35.8	37.5	0.179
Types*
Physical	25.9	19.1	22.3	0.003
Psychological	23.4	23.5	23.5	0.943
Sexual	5.1	1.5	3.2	<0.001
Multiple types of offline perpetration				0.008
None	60.7	64.2	62.5
1	25.9	27.7	26.8
≥2	12.4	8.1	10.7

p value based on Pearson’s χ² test comparing victimisation or perpetration experiences by gender.

Bold text indicates statistically significant p values.

*Categories are not mutually exclusive.