ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Association Between Sub-types of Sibling Bullying and Mental Health Distress Among Chinese Children and Adolescents.
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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
- Meta-analysis of the relationship between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Participants' Roles in Bullying Among 7-11 Year Olds: Results from a UK-Wide Randomized Control Trial of the KiVa School-Based Program.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of school bullying among adolescents in Inner Mongolia, China.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Factors affecting sibling bullying and its association with self-esteem and depression in middle school students.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Previous School Bullying-Associated Depression in Chinese College Students: The Mediation of Personality.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Sibling Bullying: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Associations with Positive and Negative Mental Health during Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Sibling conflict during COVID-19 in families with special educational needs and disabilities.The British journal of educational psychology · 2022Article
- Sibling bullying among Vietnamese children: the relation with peer bullying and subjective well-being.Current issues in personality psychology · 2022Article
- 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
Sibling bullying is a common phenomenon in childhood and adolescence worldwide and has a significant association with mental health distress. However, there have been few studies that have examined the associations between any specific sub-type of sibling bullying and depression as well as anxiety. Besides, the association between sibling bullying and psychological well-being was never explored among the Chinese population. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine the associations between the number of sub-types of sibling bullying involvement and depression as well as anxiety among Chinese children and adolescents. Multi-stage stratified cluster sampling was used to recruit 5,926 participants aged 10 to 18 who had at least one sibling living in the household. Different sub-types of sibling bullying involvement were determined by using Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (OBVQ). The nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) were used to screen clinical ranges of major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, respectively. Of the participants, 1,235 (20.8%) were bullied by siblings, and 1,230 (20.8%) perpetrated bullying behavior against siblings over the past 6 months. After controlling potential confounders, adjusted model of logistic regression analyses indicated that all three sub-types of sibling victimization and perpetration were significantly associated with both depression and anxiety. There were linear associations between the number of sub-types of sibling bullying victimization and depression (adjusted OR = 1.49, 95% CI 1.32 to 1.68) as well as anxiety (adjusted OR = 1.68, 95% CI 1.48 to 1.90). Besides, linear trends were found between the number of sub-types of sibling bullying perpetration and depression (adjusted OR = 1.44, 95% CI 1.26 to 1.64) as well as anxiety (adjusted OR = 1.63, 95% CI 1.42 to 1.87). The findings underline dose-response relationships between the number of sub-types of sibling bullying involvement and mental health distress. Intervention programs should be conducted to focus on developing mental health status of those children and adolescents who are involved in multiple sub-types of sibling victimization or perpetration.
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