ReviewJournal of psychiatric research2019
The impact of startle reactivity to unpredictable threat on the relation between bullying victimization and internalizing psychopathology.
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- Pooled it
- Neurodevelopmental associations linking subtypes of bullying victimization to internalizing and externalizing problems in childhood and adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Longitudinal associations between binge drinking and changes in behavioral and neural threat reactivity in youth.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- (In)Congruence Effect of Individual and Classroom Victimization on Internalizing Problems: Examine Healthy Context Paradox Using Response Surface Analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Consumption, relative deprivation and mental health: evidence from hedonic consumption.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Facing ambiguity: Social threat sensitivity mediates the association between peer victimization and adolescent anxiety.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Effects of Bullying on Anxiety, Depression, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Sexual Minority Youths: Network Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Threat effects on cognitive systems: Testing links to aggression proneness.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Threat effects on attention networks in individuals with a history of externalizing behaviors.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Emotional processing in bullying: an event-related potential study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Childhood Adversity and the Association Between Stress Sensitivity and Problematic Alcohol Use in Adults.Journal of traumatic stress · 2022Article
- Threat bias and resting state functional connectivity of the amygdala and bed nucleus stria terminalis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2020Article
- Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts in Chinese Adolescents Involved in Different Sub-types of Bullying: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundBeing bullied has detrimental effects on mental health functioning. Individuals who are highly reactive to unpredictable threats (U-threat) may be particularly vulnerable to the negative consequences of being bullied. For them, persistent, unpredictable bullying likely elicits chronic anticipatory anxiety and depression. The aim of the present study was to examine the main and interactive effects of aversive reactivity to U-threat and past-year bullying victimization on current anxiety and depressive symptoms.
methodsSeventy-one young adults (ages 17-19) completed a well-validated threat-of-shock task used to probe reactivity to both U-threat and predictable threat (P-threat). Startle eyeblink potentiation was recorded to index aversive responding.
resultsWe found a main effect of bullying, such that individuals with more bullying experience exhibited greater anxiety and depressive symptoms than individuals with less bullying experience. There was also a bullying by U-threat reactivity interaction such that among individuals with high reactivity to U-threat, more bullying experience was associated with more anxiety and depressive symptoms. Among individuals with low U-threat reactivity, there was no association between bullying and internalizing symptoms. There were no main or interactive effects involving reactivity to P-threat.
conclusionsTogether, these results suggest that among individuals who are bullied, those who are sensitive to U-threat are particularly vulnerable to depression and anxiety in young adulthood. These individuals may represent a high-risk group for the development of internalizing psychopathology.
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