... bullying and use its findings to point to hypotheses or further research questions. A two part self report questionnaire was used to gather data speedily and in quantity from a large sample of approximately 1100 respondents. The sample population was drawn from part-time students at Stafford University over a three week period. Aspects of the methodology are recognized as problematic by the research team. Definition of bullying is difficult because there is no legislation or legal terms for guidance, plus feeling bullied is a subjective and personal experience. Sexual harassment does have legal definition and has parallels with bullying so the team decided to use these as a starting point, although it is not made clear in the report how this process was drawn out to produce definitions. In fact there is no clear definition of bullying in the report except that the victim must have felt bullied. Table 11 gives ...

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