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Overview

Ken Rigby is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, education, clinical psychology, and safety research.

The scholar's work addresses several main topics, including bullying, victimization, and aggression; behavioral and psychological studies; education discipline and inequality; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; youth development and social support; eating disorders and behaviors; and obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Ken Rigby has published papers in a variety of academic journals. Some recent publications include:

  • How Teachers Deal with Cases of Bullying at School: What Victims Say (2020) in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Theoretical Perspectives and Two Explanatory Models of School Bullying (2022) in the International Journal of Bullying Prevention
  • Do teachers really underestimate the prevalence of bullying in schools? (2020) in Social Psychology of Education
  • How do victims of bullying in Australian schools view their perpetrators - As individuals or as groups? Implications for educators (2020) in Australian Journal of Education
  • A scoping review exploring research investigating the influence of carbohydrate counting on eating behaviour and/or disordered eating in type 1 diabetes (2025) in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Prominent publication venues for their work include:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • International Journal of Bullying Prevention
  • Social Psychology of Education
  • Australian Journal of Education
  • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Their frequent co-authors include Idoia Iturbe, Toby Candler, Rob Anderson, Julian Hamilton-Shield, and Elanor C. Hinton.

Best Publications

  • Bullying in Schools and What to Do About It

    Ken Rigby

  • Bullying among Australian school children: reported behavior and attitudes toward victims.

    Ken Rigby;Phillip T. Slee

  • Dimensions of Interpersonal Relation Among Australian Children and Implications for Psychological Well-Being

    Ken Rigby;Phillip T. Slee

  • Consequences of Bullying in Schools

    Ken Rigby

  • Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Interventions Be?

    Peter K. Smith;Debra Pepler;Ken Rigby

  • Suicidal Ideation among Adolescent School Children, Involvement in Bully—Victim Problems, and Perceived Social Support

    Ken Rigby;Phillip Slee

  • Effects of peer victimization in schools and perceived social support on adolescent well-being.

    Ken Rigby

  • New Perspectives on Bullying

    Ken Rigby

  • Expressed Readiness of Australian Schoolchildren to Act as Bystanders in Support of Children who are Being Bullied

    Ken Rigby;Bruce Johnson

  • The relationship of Eysenck's personality factors and self-esteem to bully-victim behaviour in Australian schoolboys

    Phillip T. Slee;Ken Rigby

  • US teachers' and school counsellors' strategies for handling school bullying incidents

    Sheri Bauman;Ken Rigby;Kathleen Hoppa

  • Peer victimisation at school and the health of secondary school students

    Ken Rigby

  • Australian school children's self appraisal of interpersonal relations : The bullying experience

    Phillip T. Slee;Ken Rigby

  • Is School Bullying Really on the Rise

    Ken Rigby;Peter K. Smith

  • What children tell us about bullying in schools

    Ken Rigby

  • How teachers respond to school bullying: An examination of self-reported intervention strategy use, moderator effects, and concurrent use of multiple strategies

    Christoph Burger;Dagmar Strohmeier;Nina Spröber;Sheri Bauman

  • The Relationship Between Reported Health and Involvement in Bully/ Victim Problems among Male and Female Secondary Schoolchildren.

    Ken Rigby

  • Bully/Victim Students & Classroom Climate

    Shoko Yoneyama;Ken Rigby

  • Addressing Bullying in Schools: Theoretical Perspectives and their Implications

    Ken Rigby

  • Psychosocial functioning in families of Australian adolescent schoolchildren involved in bully/victim problems

    Ken Rigby

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip T. Slee
Phillip T. Slee Flinders University
Debra Pepler
Debra Pepler York University
Anita S. Mak
Anita S. Mak University of Canberra
Patrick C. L. Heaven
Patrick C. L. Heaven Australian Catholic University
Graham Martin
Graham Martin University of Queensland

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