Do teachers really underestimate the prevalence of bullying in schools?
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Do teachers really underestimate the prevalence of bullying in schools? Ken Rigby1 Received: 11 December 2019 / Accepted: 14 May 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Previous studies undertaken internationally have concluded that teachers commonly underestimate the prevalence of bullying among students at their schools. Evidence supporting this claim is based upon findings that estimations of bullying prevalence derived from the self-reports of individual students are higher than the estimations made by teachers. However, this conclusion was not sustained when both teachers and students were asked to estimate the overall prevalence of bullying at their school. Students (N = 1688) and teachers (N = 63) at 36 government schools in Australia were asked to indicate how often they thought students at their school were bullied in nine different ways by other students. Constituted as a reliable 9-item scale, teachers obtained significantly higher prevalence scores on this measure (p
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