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Record W4409528908 · doi:10.1016/j.dadr.2025.100335

The association between race-based bullying and nicotine vaping in adolescents

2025· article· en· W4409528908 on OpenAlex
Christina Grimo, Megan J. Magier, Scott T. Leatherdale, Karen A. Patte

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueDrug and Alcohol Dependence Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicBullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WaterlooBrock University
FundersInstitute of Population and Public HealthInstitute of Nutrition, Metabolism and DiabetesCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchHealth CanadaCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsNicotineAssociation (psychology)Race (biology)PsychologyClinical psychologyPsychiatryPsychotherapistSociologyGender studies

Abstract

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Racialized youth face a higher risk of bullying victimization due to discriminatory bias which can lead to adverse health conditions and increased substance use. This study aimed to examine whether bullying victimization is associated with nicotine vaping, and whether race-based bullying was associated with greater odds of nicotine vaping than other forms of bullying. Cross-sectional survey data were used from the COMPASS study collected during the 2022–2023 school year from 14,480 students attending secondary schools in Ontario, Canada. Associations between any bullying victimization (in the last 30 days) and nicotine vaping (≥2 times in the last 30 days), and then among bullied students, between race-based bullying and vaping, were explored using random intercept logistic regression models. One third (33.4 %) of students who reported race-based bullying engaged in vaping, in comparison to 29.4 % of students who were bullied for other reasons and 15.6 % of nonbullied students. Students who experienced bullying had higher odds (AOR 2.25, 95 % CI [2.03–2.50]) of vaping relative to nonbullied students. Among students who experienced bullying, there was no statistical difference in the odds of vaping between those who reported being bullied due to racial or cultural reasons and their peers who reported being bullied for reasons other than their race or culture (1.16, 95 % CI [0.81–1.67]). Results suggest that while bullying is strongly associated with vaping among adolescents, being bullied for reasons such as race, culture, or ethnicity does not significantly alter the likelihood of vaping behaviour relative to other forms of bullying. • This is the first Canadian study to examine nicotine vaping in relation to reported experiences of race-based bullying. • Any bullying victimization was associated with higher odds of nicotine vaping in adolescents. • Students that experienced race-based bullying had the highest frequency of nicotine vape use. • Multiethnic and another ethnicity adolescents were more likely to vape and be bullied. • Vaping odds did not differ based on race-based bullying relative to other bullying.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.436

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it