Description: Screen for children and adolescents who engage in bullying behaviour or are the victims of bullying. These three self-report, standardised instruments form a comprehensive picture of a child's experience of peer-related threat, level of distress and anxiety related to school safety. Results can provide benchmarks for identifying a child for intervention, or for identifying what students perceive as a threatening or unsafe school environment. Bully-Victimization Scale (BVS) The BVS provides for the identification of youngsters who are being bullied and students who engage in bullying behaviour. It may be used individually and as a school-based screening measure for the identification of bullies and bully-victims. Bully-Victimization Distress Scale (BVDS) The BVDS is a measure of students' psychological response to bullying and determines the internalising and externalising nature of this distress. School Violence Anxiety Scale (SVAS) The SVAS evaluates anxiety about the school as a safe environment, including anxiety specific to physical harm at school, harassment at school, and the potential for violence occurring at school.

Series: RBVSS

Publisher: Pearson Assessment US

Year Published: 2003

Qualifications: CL2R

Format: KIT

Components: BVS: 8 to 17 years; BVDS: 8 to 17 years; SVAS: 10 to 17 years

Keywords: Bullies; victims of bullying;