Parental Reported Bullying among Saudi Schoolchildren: Its Forms, Effect on Academic Abilities, and Associated Sociodemographic, Physical, and Dentofacial Features

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of factors associated with bulling victimization.

Independent variables	Group		S.E.	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval		Sig.
					Lower	Upper
Age group of child	8-11^reference
	12-15	-0.525	0.361	0.592	0.292	1.201	0.146
	16-18	-1.709	0.471	0.181	0.072	0.456
Feelings inside class	Like^reference
	Ambivalent	0.712	0.330	2.038	1.067	3.892
	Hate	2.194	0.562	8.969	2.984	26.958
Absence from school	Yes^reference
	No	-2.993	0.513	0.050	0.018	0.137
	Do not know	-2.043	0.631	0.130	0.038	0.447
Effect on school grades	Significant effect	1.319	0.359	3.739	1.852	7.550
	Little effect	1.050	0.424	2.859	1.246	6.559
	No effect^reference
Extent of bullying because of interest in school or good grades	A lot^reference
	A little	-0.380	0.588	0.684	0.216	2.164	0.518
	Not at all	-1.369	0.616	0.254	0.076	0.851

Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test , indicates statistically significant difference.