The relationship between bullying behaviours in childhood and physician-diagnosed internalizing disorders

Abstract

Objective Bullying and its potential consequence for poor mental health constitutes a public health concern, yet there is a dearth of longitudinal studies examining the topic. This study examines the temporal relationship between childhood bullying behaviours (being a victim, being a bully, or being a bully and a victim) and physician-diagnosed internalizing disorders over a 7-year timespan. Methods Data from the 2003 Children's Lifestyle and School performance Study (CLASS), a population-based health survey of grade 5 students in Nova Scotia, Canada were linked to administrative health-care records to examine the relationship between bullying behaviours and services where a physician diagnosis of an internalizing disorder (ID) was received. Negative binomial regression analyses were conducted to examine this relationship. Results Of the 4694 participants, 33.3% reported being involved in some form of bullying behaviour and 24.1% had a service where a physician diagnosis of ID was given over a 7-year timespan. Compared with children who reported not being involved in bullying behaviours, children who reported being a victim of bullying had a higher rate of subsequent physician-diagnosed ID services (IRR = 1.38, 95% CI = 1.11, 1.70). Children who reported being a bully had a lower rate of ID services (IRR = 0.67, 95% CI = 0.46, 0.99), while there was no difference for those who reported between being a bully and a victim (bully-victim) with respect to ID services. Conclusion Bullying behaviours should be considered a serious public health issue due to their high prevalence in school environments and detrimental effects on the mental health of adolescents.

Comparisons Between Adolescent Bullies, Victims, and Bully-Victims on Perceived Popularity, Social Impact, and Social Preference

“…These adolescents may lack efficient cognitive, social, and emotional skills (8, 38, 39), and fail to successfully use a combination of coercive and prosocial strategies in their pursuit of social dominance (2, 70). Bully-victims could therefore experience feelings of hopelessness and social defeat (71), and this could account for some of the adverse physical and psychological outcomes reported for this group (39, 72, 73). Thus, although adolescent bullies and bully-victims appear to have a similar impact on their social worlds, their social experiences are distinct (74), and our findings show that having high social impact is not necessarily a positive attribute for overall peer status.…”

Bullying-Erfahrungen bei PatientInnen einer Ambulanz für Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapie – eine besonders gefährdete Gruppe?

“…Die Forschung der letzten Jahre zeigt konsistent, dass Bullying im Kindes-/Jugendalter kurzfristig mit einem erhöhten Risiko für psychische Auffälligkeiten einhergeht (Moore et al, 2017). Dazu gehören depressive Episoden, soziale Angststörungen, vermehrte Selbstverletzung und suizidales Verhalten, sowie stationäre Aufenthalte aufgrund psychischer Probleme (Kaltiala-Heino & Fröjd, 2011;Koh & Wong, 2017;Kontak, Kirk, Robinson, Ohinmaa, & Veugelers, 2019;Leader, Singh, Ghaffar, & de Silva, 2018;Lereya et al, 2013). Die aktuelle Datenlage deutet darauf hin, dass neben den kurzfristigen die negativen Langzeitfolgen für die psychische und körperliche Gesundheit bis ins Erwachsenenalter persistieren können (Moore et al, 2017;Sourander et al, 2016;Wolke, Copeland, Angold, & Costello, 2013;.…”

Relaciones entre las actitudes sexistas, la comunicación familiar y la agresión hacia los iguales

“…La adolescencia se caracteriza por ser una etapa de la vida en la que se produce una prevalencia elevada de violencia escolar entre iguales (Söderberg y Björkqvist, 2019). De hecho, este tipo de violencia supone una de las principales problemáticas durante la adolescencia debido a las graves consecuencias que genera en la salud de los adolescentes (Callaghan Kelly y Molcho, 2019; Kontak, Kirk, Robinson, Ohinmaa y Veugelers, 2019).…”