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Peer relations, violence and school attendance: analyses of bullying in senior high schools in Ghana
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:11 authored by Mairead DunneMairead Dunne, Ricardo Sabates, Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam, Andrew OwusuThis 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.
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The Journal of Development StudiesISSN
0022-0388Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
49Page range
285-300Department affiliated with
- Education Publications
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2012-08-06Usage metrics
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