Grant: Doctoral: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

Immigrant children and adolescents may be more at risk of being involved in bullying behaviours, which could lead to serious mental and physical health consequences. This project will examine bullying in immigrant youth across Canada and identify the individual, school and regional factors that may put immigrant youth at risk for bullying involvement. The individual factors that will be examined will include whether individuals are visible minorities and how long they have lived in Canada. The school factors that will be examined are school diversity and school cohesion. The regional factors that will be examined are available community resources and regional income level. The research will use data from a large national study called the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey. The goal of this project is to help target interventions to the regions that are in greatest need of extra supports and programs and to inform bullying and health policies and prevention strategies to improve the mental and physical health of individuals in this population.