| Summary: Evaluates a school-based intervention designed to help girls understand relational bullying and aggressive behaviour (e.g. controlling, rejecting, manipulation and exclusionary behaviours in a social context). Students showed greater awareness of relational bullying after the intervention and indicated that it would influence them to change their behaviour. At follow-up, retention of knowledge was good. Concludes that while the outcomes of the intervention were encouraging, it is unrealistic to expect a two lesson intervention to eradicate all relational bullying. Suggests that the most effective way to tackle the issue would be for parents to teach the message at home, with group interventions at school used to reinforce the message. |
