Children involved in bullying at elementary school age: their psychiatric symptoms and deviance in adolescence

Kumpulainen, Kirsti; Räsänen, Eila

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(00)00210-6

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“…On the other hand, depression at age 15 did not predict subsequent victimisation to bullying. Our finding that victimisation to bullying was a risk factor for depression in middle adolescent boys is in accordance with the earlier findings suggesting that victimisation to bullying is followed by emotional, behavioural and psychosocial problems among children, or from childhood to adolescence [17,21,32,33,55]. Bond et al [6] also found that victimisation to bullying in adolescence predicted later depression, although only in girls, but Kim et al [27] found no association between victimisation and depression in a follow-up study among adolescents.…”

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Involvement in bullying and depression in a 2-year follow-up in middle adolescence

Kaltiala-Heino

Fröjd

Marttunen

2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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The main objective was to analyse whether involvement in bullying at school predicts depression, and whether depression predicts involvement in bullying in middle adolescence. A total of 2,070 15-year-old girls and boys in two Finnish cities were surveyed at ninth grade (age 15) at schools, and followed up 2 years later in the Adolescent Mental Health Cohort Study (AMHC). Depression was measured by a Finnish modification of the 13-item short Beck Depression Inventory. Involvement in bullying was elicited by three questions focusing on being a bully, being a victim to bullying, and being left alone by peers against one's wishes. Similar questions were posed at both time points. Statistical analyses were carried out using cross-tabulations with chi-square/Fisher's Exact Test statistics, and logistic regression. The results summarized that, both being a victim to bullying and being a bully predicted later depression among boys. Among girls, depression at T1 predicted victimisation at T2. Depression at T1 predicted experience of being left alone at T2 among both sexes. It was concluded that victimisation to bullying may be a traumatising event that results in depression. However, depression also predicts experience of victimisation and of being left alone against one's wishes. Depression may impair an adolescent's social skills and self-esteem so that the adolescent becomes victimised by peers. However, depression may also distort and adolescent's experiences of social interactions.

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“…On the other hand, depression and anxiety, but not physical symptoms, predicted subsequent victimisation to bullying. Kumpulainen and Räsänen [32] found that victimisation in childhood, at age 8, predicted psychiatric symptoms at age 15.…”

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Involvement in bullying and depression in a 2-year follow-up in middle adolescence

Kaltiala-Heino

Fröjd

Marttunen

2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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137

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“…The universality and harmfulness of bullying have been widely recognised. Population-based studies indicate that 20 to 30 % of school children are frequently involved in bullying as bullies and/or victims [22][23][24][25][26]. Bullies and victims of bullying are more likely than other children to suffer from a wide variety of problems, including depression and anxiety [27,28], low selfregard, [29] and violent behaviour [30].…”

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Childhood bullying as a predictor for becoming a teenage mother in Finland

Lehti

Sourander²,

Klomek³

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Objective: To examine the association between bullying behaviour at the age of eight and becoming a mother under the age of 20.Study design: Birth cohort study, which included 2867 Finnish girls at baseline in 1989. Register-based follow-up data on births was collected from 1994 until 2000. Information on both the main exposure and outcome was available for 2507 girls.Results: Both bullies and victims had an increased risk of becoming a teenage mother independently of family-related risk factors. When controlled for childhood psychopathology, however, the association remained significant for bullies (OR 2.2, 95 % CI 1.2-4.1) and bully-victims (OR 1.8, 95 % CI 1.05-3.2), but not for pure victims. Reports of bullying and victimization from the girls themselves, their parents and their teachers were all associated with becoming a teenage mother independently of each other. Conclusion:There is a predictive association between being a bully in childhood and becoming a mother in adolescence. It may be useful to target bullies for teenage pregnancy prevention.

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“…Estudos têm apontado uma maior probabilidade de autores de bullying se envolverem em comportamentos infratores mais graves e serem criminalmente condenados na vida adulta (Batsche & Knoff, 1994;Heinrichs, 2003;Kumpulainen & Räsänen, 2000). Na população avaliada, podemos identificar que os adolescentes que cometeram crimes mais graves também apresentavam um relato de maior frequência de bullying.…”

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“…Estudos acerca das implicações do bullying (Kumpulainen & Räsänen, 2000;Olweus, 1993) revelaram que indivíduos que apresentaram comportamentos de bullying na infância e adolescência tiveram maior probabilidade de serem condenados, mais tarde na vida, por crimes graves, e de apresentarem reincidência criminal. Além disso, podem engajar-se em comportamentos de abuso de substâncias, relações negativas com pares, delinquência e envolvimento com gangues, depressão, ideação suicida e violência doméstica (Heinrichs, 2003).…”

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