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Table 1 Interview guide

From: The experience of bullying among adolescents receiving mental health care: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

 

Area of experience

Potential questions with an adolescent

1

Bullying history, onset of bullying

How long have you been bullied?

What were the circumstances?

2

Emotional reaction to bullying

What did you feel?

3

Behavioural reaction to bullying

How did you defend?

4

Perceived effectiveness of reactions

How did you cope with?

What was effective?

5

Emotions after bullying has ceased

How do you feel now?

What do you think of what happened?