Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2023
St Catherine Parish

Jamaica, 2023

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JAM_2023_GSHS_v01

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National Council on Drug Abuse

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May 13, 2026

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Cyber bullied in past 12 mos (in_cyberbull)

Data file: JAM-St-Cath-2023

Overview

Valid: 2877

Invalid: 164

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about bullying. Bullying occurs when one or more students or other people about your age say or do hurtful or mean things. Bullying can occur when someone teases, threatens, ignores, spreads rumors about, calls someone a bad name, makes sexual remarks, or hits, shoves, or hurts another person over and over again. It is not bullying when two people of about the same strength or power argue or fight or tease each other in a friendly way.

Cyber bullying is a form of bullying using social media and other forms of online communication. Cyber bullying may happen on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook, COUNTRY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES, and other social media platforms or through texting and email.

Literal question

During the past 12 months, were you cyber bullied?

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	403	14%
2	No	2474	86%
Sysmiss		164