Validation of the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (OBVQ-R) Among Adolescents in Chile

Frontiers in Psychology

María Inés Godoy¹  Ricardo Araya²  Jorge Gaete³  Cristian A. Rojas-Barahona⁴  Daniela Valenzuela⁵  Christina Salmivalli⁶ 

[1] Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Health Service and Population Research, King’s College London, David Goldberg Centre, London, United Kingdom;Faculty of Education, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile;Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths, Imhay, Santiago, Chile;Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile;Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths, Imhay, Santiago, Chile;School of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland;

关键词: validity;    reliability;    bullying;    OBVQ-R;    questionnaire;    children;    adolescents;    Chile;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.578661

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Bullying is a phenomenon that affects children and adolescents worldwide, and it has major consequences for all participants involved in these situations. In Chile, researchers have validated several instruments used to investigate aggression between peers and school violence, but there is a lack of validation of instruments to investigate bullying. The purpose of this study was to provide evidence of the validity and reliability of the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire—Revised version (OBVQ-R) in the Chilean context. The participants were 2,775 students from schools of low, medium, and high socioeconomic status. OBVQ-R is a self-report questionnaire with 42 items, which has been used in different countries, and has adequate psychometric properties to assess the prevalence of victimization and aggression and various forms of bullying worldwide. Results confirmed the two-factor structure of the OBVQ-R (victimization and perpetration subscales) and good reliability (ω = 0.81 and ω = 0.75, respectively). These dimensions seem to be correlated. Comparison between OBVQ-R with the School Violence between Peers Questionnaire and the Internet Experiences Questionnaire showed some degree of agreement. The Item Response Theory analysis showed that the item about verbal bullying, in both subscales, had the lowest-severity parameters, meaning that these forms of bullying were the most prevalent. The higher-severity parameter in the victimization scale was the cyberbullying item, and the sexual bullying item showed higher severity in the perpetration subscale. The differential item functioning analysis by gender showed a trend in which boys responded with lower-severity parameters than girls. In the victimization scale, the exception was the item about spreading rumors, and in the perpetration subscale, it was the item about racial bullying. We have provided evidence of the validation of OBVQ-R among school-age children and adolescents in Chile. This study is part of a trial registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02898324.

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