Bullying

Recently, in collaboration with Judith Sims-Knight, Dr. Knight has developed a computerized bully survey, the Multidimensional Bully Survey (MBS), that has been administered four consecutive years to all students, grades 5 through 12 in an entire school system. He is currently collaborating on publications that demonstrate the validity of the instrument as a metric for assessing the efficacy of various intervention strategies. The references provided in this section include dissertations supervised by Drs. Knight and Sims-Knight on the MBS and ppts of presentations to the Foxborough School Committee on the results of the annual administration of the MBS.

Etiology

Borland, A. M. (2011). Sibling abuse: Prediction of later antisocial and deviant behaviors (Unpublished masters’ thesis). University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA.

Dowd, M. (2014). Why do we relate the way we do? (Unpublished Honors thesis), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA.

Prevention

Knight R. A., & Sims-Knight, J. E. (2013). Annual presentation on bullying in middle and high schools to the Foxboro School Committee. Foxboro: MA.

Knight R. A., & Sims-Knight, J. E. (2014). Annual presentation on bullying in middle and high schools to the Foxboro School Committee. Foxboro: MA.

Sims-Knight, J. E., & Knight R. A. (2012). Annual presentation on bullying in middle and high schools to the Foxboro School Committee. Foxboro: MA.

Bishop, E. (2014). Effectiveness of the Caring School Community Program in reducing school bullying and victimization. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Brandeis University: MA.

Taxonomy or Dimension

Graham, F., J., Walters, G. D., & Knight, R. A. (2014). Is bullying dimensional or categorical? Evidence from middle and high school students. Manuscript in preparation.

Types

Gadbois, E. (2011). Cyberaggression in adolescence: Traits of bullies, victims, and bully/victims (Unpublished masters’ thesis). University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA.

Multidimensional Bully Survey

Sims-Knight, J. E., & Knight, R. A. (2014). The Multidimensional Bully Survey.