Table 2.
Past-year prevalence of online and in-person peer victimization by youth characteristics (n=5542)
| Youth characteristics | Online peer victimization |
In person peer victimization |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No peer victimization | Generalized peer victimization | Bullying (repetitive with differential power) | No peer victimization | Generalized peer victimization | Bullying (repetitive with differential power) | |
| Sexual identitya , b | ||||||
| Heterosexual | 69.6% (2,848) | 43.2% (422) | 23.8% (110) | 70.8% (2,124) | 58.2% (904) | 38.0% (352) |
| GLQ | 12.2% (677) | 23.0% (387) | 30.6% (218) | 10.1% (407) | 17.1% (467) | 29.5% (408) |
| Bisexual | 14.1% (330) | 30.0% (196) | 42.0% (129) | 15.8% (231) | 18.9% (215) | 28.8% (209) |
| QUO | 4.2% (170) | 3.8% (41) | 3.6% (14) | 3.3% (109) | 5.9% (85) | 3.7% (31) |
| Gender identitya , b | ||||||
| Cisgender youth | 95.5% (3,822) | 90.0% (901) | 86.8% (377) | 96.6% (2,762) | 92.7% (1,513) | 87.5% (825) |
| Gender minority youth | 4.5% (203) | 10.0% (145) | 13.2% (94) | 3.4% (109) | 7.3% (158) | 12.5% (175) |
| (Transgender, gender nonconforming, and other gender youth) | ||||||
| Demographic characteristics | ||||||
| Age (M: SE)a , b | 15.7% (0.04) | 15.7 (0.08) | 15.4 (0.14) | 15.9 (0.04) | 15.5 (0.06) | 15.3 (0.09) |
| White (vs. non-white)b | 66.3% (2,933) | 69.7% (803) | 69.0% (340) | 64.4% (2,039) | 69.3% (1,277) | 72.0% (760) |
| Hispanic (versus non-Hispanic) | 20.6% (513) | 15.5% (108) | 16.3% (51) | 21.0% (379) | 17.4% (187) | 17.3% (106) |
| Lower than average household income (versus average, higher than average) a , b | 27.5% (920) | 32.1% (259) | 35.8% (146) | 26.3% (632) | 29.5% (400) | 36.3% (293) |
| Setting | ||||||
| Urban | 29.1% (1,188) | 28.3% (312) | 22.8% (139) | 29.3% (846) | 27.7% (498) | 27.3% (295) |
| Suburban | 32.9% (1,589) | 33.9% (420) | 32.0% (170) | 33.3% (1,165) | 32.9% (664) | 32.0% (350) |
| Small town | 38.0% (1,248) | 37.8% (314) | 45.2% (162) | 37.4% (860) | 39.5% (509) | 40.7% (355) |
| Depressive symptomatologya , b | 3.9% (128) | 6.9% (75) | 19.3% (86) | 4.1% (97) | 4.4% (68) | 12.1% (124) |
| Survey process measures | ||||||
| Dishonest in answering questionsa | 1.3% (43) | 0.5% (11) | 2.1% (11) | 1.4% (34) | 0.8% (17) | 1.6% (14) |
| Not alone when completing the survey | 32.1% (1,284) | 33.2% (331) | 35.4% (135) | 32.7% (930) | 31.3% (506) | 34.1% (314) |
Note. QUO = Questioning, unsure, and youth of other sexual identities. GLQ = Gay, Lesbian, and Queer youth. Cisgender = Not Gender Minority. Variables with multiple categories (e.g., setting) sum down the column (i.e., urban + suburban + small town). Data shown for dichotomous variables (e.g., race) reflect one of the two categories (e.g., white). The value for the other category (e.g., non-white) can be computed by subtracting the value shown (e.g., 67.4%) from 100% (i.e., 32.6%).
Distribution of youth characteristic is statistically significantly different by online peer victimization experience (p< = 0.05).
Distribution of youth characteristic is statistically significantly different by in-person peer victimization experience (p< = 0.05).