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Dissertation Defense Public Seminar – Shailja Tiku
Using Latent Class Analysis and the Social-Ecological Model to Predict Membership in Latent Classes of Bullying, Victimization, and Bystander Behavior and Examining Associations with the Derived Classes Among High School Students.
Presented by Shailja Tiku, PhD Candidate
In this quantitative study, the underlying classes of bullies, victims, and bystanders among a sample of high school students in a mid-western state in United States were identified and described. Further, using the social-ecological model, the individual-, family-, peer-, and school-level factors associated with bullying were predicted as they relate to the identified classes. Data from the Dane County (Wisconsin) Youth Assessment Survey of 2018 was used in this study. Several individual-, family-, peer-, and school-level factors were associated with the latent classes of bullying behavior. The findings of this study can help to understand the risk and protective factors associated with high school students’ involvement in bullying dynamics.