ArticleAnnals of general psychiatry2017
Relationship between the experience of being a bully/victim and mental health in preadolescence and adolescence: a cross-sectional study.
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- Bullying and depression among adolescents in East Asia: a scoping review on prevalence rates, risk and protective factors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Between the scales and the scars: The interpersonal moderators of the association between Body Mass Index and parent-reported depression/anxiety diagnoses in U.S. children: Evidence from the 2021-22 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH).PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Involvement in bullying and sleep disorders in Chinese early adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Does Friend Support Matter? The Association between Gender Role Attitudes and School Bullying among Male Adolescents in China.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Victims, bullies and bully-victims: prevalence and association with negative health outcomes from a cross-sectional study in São Paulo, Brazil.International journal of public health · 2020Article
- Clustering effects of health risk behavior on mental health and physical activity in Chinese adolescents.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSeveral studies have proven that the experiences of being bullied or bullying others are associated with poor mental health among adolescent youths. Our study aims to investigate the relationship between the experience of the bully/victim and mental health among preadolescents and adolescents.
methodsSubjects were the Japanese fifth and sixth grade elementary school students (preadolescents: mean age = 11.3 years;
resultsFour groups relating to the experience of being a bully/victim were formed: "Victim Only," "Bully Only," "Victim and Bully," and "Neither." Approximately 65% of preadolescents and approximately 25% of adolescents engaged in bullying behaviors. Of these, the rate of participants in the "Bully Only" group was low, and that in the "Victim and Bully" group was high. Regarding the relationship between the experience of being a bully/victim and mental health, both preadolescents and adolescents of the "Victim Only" group had significantly higher scores on the YSR's internalizing problems compared with the "Neither" group. Moreover, both preadolescents and adolescents of the "Bully Only" group had significantly higher scores on the YSR's externalizing problems compared with the "Neither" group. Regarding the relationship between the experience of being a bully/victim and suicidal ideation for both preadolescent and adolescent girls, the relative risks of suicidal ideation were significantly higher in the "Victim and Bully" group than in the "Neither" group.
conclusionsPreadolescents indicated a higher rate of bullying behaviors than adolescents. In both preadolescents and adolescents, different effect patterns on mental health were found for the "Victim Only," "Bully Only," and "Victim and Bully" groups. The prevention and intervention methods for mental health should be tailored according to the type of experience associated with being a bully/victim and according to the developmental stages of preadolescence or adolescence.
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