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vii Tables  Table 1.1: Percentage of young people in Ireland who bullied others occasionally and frequently in the previous couple of months (WHO, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table 1.2: Percentage of Irish young people who have been bullied occasionally and frequently in the previous couple of months (WHO, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Table 1.3: Comparison of percentages of pupils reporting involvement in bullying during the last three months in the 2004–2005 ‘ABC’ survey and in the 1993–1994 nationwide survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Table 1.4: Percentage of victims reporting in which class/year were the pupils by whom they were bullied. . . . . . . . 20 Table 1.5: Transnational percentage rates of cyber-bullying . . . . 25 Table 1.6: Percentage of pupils in Ireland reporting involvement in cyber-bullying behaviour. . . . . . . . . . 26 Table 6.1: Mean cluster and Global Self-Esteem scores for young people out of home and school-going students who are not involved in bullying, pure victims, pure bullies and bully/victims . . . . . . 131 Table 8.1: Most common bullying behaviours experienced (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Table 8.2: Most common bullying behaviours experienced (2006) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 ...

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