New data has revealed school bullying rates in Queensland have risen by 16 per cent.

The data was collected by wellbeing tool Skodel.

Author and leading child psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg weighed in on the worrying trend, saying during lockdowns, young people weren’t socialising in the normal ways.

“If you think about kids they have to do four things, one is go to school and emancipate from their parents, hang out with friends and figure out who they are by taking normal healthy risks, all four of those developmental tasks were to some degree thwarted as a result of the pandemic,” he told Scott Emerson.

“I think what we are seeing in the bullying data, is part of the result of that lack of opportunity to properly socialise.”

He says the “emotional temperature” in families and at home might have also increased.

He says it may also be a result of spending too much time on screens.

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