Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 545-553 , May 2009

School, Neighborhood, and Family Factors Are Associated With Children's Bullying Involvement: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study

,Accepted 14 December 2008.

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 The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Study is funded by the Medical Research Council (UK-Medical Research Council grant G9806489). This research on bullying is supported by the Jacobs Foundation, the British Academy, and the Nuffield Foundation.The authors thank the study families and teachers for participation. The authors also thank Michael Rutter and Robert Plomin, Thomas Achenbach for kind permission to adapt the Child Behavior Checklist, and the members of the E-Risk Study team for the hard work and insights.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60071-X

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31819cb017

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 545-553 , May 2009

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