Peer Relations, Violence and School Attendance: Analyses of Bullying in Senior High Schools in Ghana
研究加纳高中生中欺凌行为对出勤的影响，发现朋友支持能缓解男生因欺凌导致的缺勤，但对女生效果较弱，尤其是遭受心理欺凌的女生。
Abstract This article focuses on bullying among students and explores the ways it affects the attendance of senior high school students in Ghana. It explores whether having emotional problems, in addition to being bullied, incrementally affects the relationship between bullying and school attendance and the mitigating influence of peer friendships on these relationships. The results show gender differences in which absenteeism associated with bullying was mitigated by the support of friends for boys but not to the same degree for girls, especially those girls who had reported being psychologically bullied. Our findings suggest a school environment in which peer friendship and emotional wellbeing are intertwined in complex ways.