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Bullying is a critical and prevalent public health concern, especially as youth exposure to violence continues to considerably impact families and the community as a whole. While much is known about prevalence and reasons of victimization, features and short- and long-term effects of bullies and victims, there is little research that looks at a positive psychology approach to mitigate bullying. The current study will evaluate the prevalence of bullying perpetration and victimization and assess the mitigating effects of positive psychology constructs on bullying U.S. children and adolescents through the existing publicly available secondary dataset from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2019.