By Mihika Basu, Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide, August 26, 2020
High school students in the US experience unacceptable rates of interpersonal violence. While 1 in 4 experience bullying, 1 in 8 experience dating violence and 1 in 9 report having faced sexual violence, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Interpersonal violence or aggression perpetrated by another person, including dating violence, sexual violence and bullying, is a serious public health problem for students, schools and communities in the US. Health experts used the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data for 2019 to examine physical and sexual dating violence, sexual violence by anyone, and bullying victimization of US high school students by sex, race/ethnicity, and sexual identity.
The YRBS is a cross-sectional, school-based survey conducted biennially since 1991. Each survey year, CDC collects data from a nationally representative sample of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in the 50 US states and the District of Columbia (13,677). The current analysis includes five standard measures of violence victimization: having experienced physical dating violence, having experienced sexual dating violence, having experienced sexual violence by anyone, having been bullied on school property, and having been bullied electronically.
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