Publication details
Exploring the Relationship between School-Based Bullying and Children's Quality of Sleep: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Preliminary results
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Bullying is a widespread phenomenon in school classrooms. We aim to review the current literature on the impact of victimization on sleep in the elementary and middle school student population. We systematically searched three existing databases - Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCO (primarily PsycInfo and PsycArticles) using a two-stage screening process (within abstracts and full texts). Three experts were consulted on the search string. In the first screening step, we set up keyword search tags to search for studies by title, abstract, and keyword only. Two reviewers rated all articles for relevance. In case of disagreement, consensus was sought together with a third reviewer. Study selection criteria were: child population (7-18 years), school context, bullying, sleep problems, English language, empirical study, and existence of a quantitative effect size. To ensure agreement between the two raters, two coefficients were calculated across 100 studies (Krippendorff ? = 0.651 and Cohen ? = 0.651). Support for a bidirectional relationship between victimization/bullying and sleep problems was found in the included studies. Sleep appears to be more often a predictor than a dependent variable. A limitation is the lack of longitudinal studies. |