ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2022
A longitudinal twin study of victimization and loneliness from childhood to young adulthood.
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- A systematic review of longitudinal risk and protective factors for loneliness in youth.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Pooled it
- The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis.Child maltreatment · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of the Development and Psychometric Properties of Loneliness Measures for Children and Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
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- Peer victimization and school refusal tendencies in early adolescence: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model analysis.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
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- The impact of perceived social support on children's problem behaviors: the parallel mediating roles of attentional bias.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Long term patterns and risk factors of loneliness in young adults from an 18-Year longitudinal study in Germany.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Peer Victimization in Childhood and Timing of Substance Use Initiation: Evidence from a Twin Study.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- Social media use, online experiences, and loneliness among young adults: A cohort study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Effects of maternal separation on punishment-driven risky decision making in adolescence and adulthood.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Victimization experiences, internalizing problems and family bonds among adolescents from the UK: multi-group structural equation modeling using an intersectionality-informed approach.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Longitudinal study of peer victimization, social support, and mental health during early adolescence.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
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The present study used a longitudinal and discordant twin design to explore in depth the developmental associations between victimization and loneliness from mid-childhood to young adulthood. The data were drawn from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a birth cohort of 2,232 individuals born in England and Wales during 1994-1995. Diverse forms of victimization were considered, differing across context, perpetrator, and timing of exposure. The results indicated that exposure to different forms of victimization was associated with loneliness in a dose-response manner. In childhood, bullying victimization was uniquely associated with loneliness, over and above concurrent psychopathology, social isolation, and genetic risk. Moreover, childhood bullying victimization continued to predict loneliness in young adulthood, even in the absence of ongoing victimization. Within-twin pair analyses further indicated that this longitudinal association was explained by genetic confounds. In adolescence, varied forms of victimization were correlated with young adult loneliness, with maltreatment, neglect, and cybervictimization remaining robust to controls for genetic confounds. These findings indicate that vulnerability to loneliness in victimized young people varies according to the specific form of victimization in question, and also to the developmental period in which it was experienced.
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