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Bullying study

Published on 5 July 2006 in Acting in, Acting out, Bullying, Conduct disorder, Depression, News and Research. 0 Comments

Just in case someone forgot or didn’t understand in the first place, bullying has nasty consequences.

PEDIATRICS Vol. 118 No. 1 July 2006, pp. 130-138 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-2388)

Bullying Victimization Uniquely Contributes to Adjustment Problems in Young Children: A Nationally Representative Cohort Study

Louise Arseneault, PhDa, Elizabeth Walsh, MDb, Kali Trzesniewski, PhDa, Rhiannon Newcombe, PhDa, Avshalom Caspi, PhDa,c and Terrie E. Moffitt, PhDa,c

a Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre
b Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
c Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

OBJECTIVE. It has been shown that bullying victimization is associated with behavior and school adjustment problems, but it remains unclear whether the experience of bullying uniquely contributes to those problems after taking into account preexisting adjustment problems.

METHODS. We examined bullying in the Environmental Risk Study, a nationally representative 1994–1995 birth cohort of 2232 children. We identified children who experienced bullying between the ages of 5 and 7 years either as pure victims or bully/victims. We collected reports from mothers and teachers about children’s behavior problems and school adjustment when they were 5 years old and again when they were age 7.

RESULTS. Compared with control children, pure victims showed more internalizing problems and unhappiness at school when they were 5 and 7 years. Girls who were pure victims also showed more externalizing problems than controls. Compared with controls and pure victims, bully/victims showed more internalizing problems, more externalizing problems, and fewer prosocial behaviors when they were 5 and 7 years. They also were less happy at school compared with control children at 7 years of age. Pure victims and bully/victims showed more behavior and school adjustment problems at 7 years of age, even after controlling for preexisting adjustment problems at 5 years of age.

CONCLUSIONS. Being the victim of a bully during the first years of schooling contributes to maladjustment in young children. Prevention and intervention programs aimed at reducing mental health problems during childhood should target bullying as an important risk factor.

Link to the Pediatrics abstract.

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Antisocial behavior

Published on 20 March 2005 in Acting out, Assessment, Behavior management, Bookshelf, Bullying, Causes, Conduct disorder, Delinquency, Depression, Families, Research, The press and Treatment. 0 Comments

The most recent of a series of books examining the characteristics, causes, treatment, and consequences of antisocial behavior in children and youths, this volume by the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) team examines the behavioral processes that build and sustain deviant interactions between children and their families (as well as teachers and others). Professors Patterson and Reid have been working on this topic for more than 40 years and they have examined these processes using many different scientific methods. They have assembled chapters from an all-star cast of people with whom they have worked during that time and the contributed chapters cover both the development of and intervention in antisocial behavior.

Reid, J. B., Patterson, G. R., & Snyder, J. J. (Eds.). (2002). Antisocial behavior in children and adolescents: A developmental analysis and model for intervention. Washington, D.C., American Psychological Association.

Learn more about the book from a page on the Web site of the American Psychological Association. To learn more about the OSLC, check the link in the sidebar. During my graduate studies, I worked with this research group for a bit more than a year; I learned a tremendous amount from the interactions and readings I had during that period.

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