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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2020 Jun 15;59(2):196–203. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2020.02.020

Table 3.

Percent of Adolescents Reporting at Least One Instance of Each Type of Bias-based Bullying

Bias-based bullying Total sample (%) White (%) African American (%) Latino/a (%) Asian (%) Other ethnic (%)

Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male
Weight-based 57 58 53 49 53 60 56 43 54 63 55
Gender-based 48 58 23 40 22 56 21 50 26 61 27
Race/Ethnicity-based 30 14 15 57 62 63 52 77 66 59 55
Sexuality-based 68 68 76 47 74 66 71 52 65 67 74
Religious-based 27 28 23 22 19 27 16 28 21 31 25
Disability-based 17 19 11 12 9 16 6 12 11 24 11
Gender typicality-based 63 59 76 57 82 60 75 52 71 61 73

Note: “Other ethnic” refers to adolescents who self-reported an ethnic group other than the four pan-ethnic groups.