Developmental associations between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation and direct self‐injurious behavior in adolescence and emerging adulthood

Abstract

Background: Bullying, suicide, and self-injury are significant issues among young people. Extensive research has documented bullying victimization associations with suicidal ideation and self-injury; however, the modeling approaches used have mostly not addressed the relations between these constructs at the within-person level, and it is these links that are critical for testing developmental theories and guiding intervention efforts. This examined the within-person, bidirectional relations between these constructs in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Methods: Participants were from the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) were fit to general and sexual bullying victimization and suicidal ideation data at ages 15, 17, and 20 (n = 1465), and general and sexual victimization and direct self-injurious behavior data at ages 13, 15, 17, and 20 (n = 1482). Results: There was a positive within-person effect of age 15 general bullying victimization on age 17 suicidal ideation ( = .10) and age 17 suicidal ideation on age 20 general bullying victimization ( = .14). Conclusions: General bullying victimization and suicidal ideation may have detrimental effects on each other over development but at different stages.

Bullying and Cyberbullying Perpetration and Victimization: Prospective Within-Person Associations

“…To date, few studies of bullying and cyberbullying have addressed the influence between perpetration and victimization without confounding inter- and intra-individual. The stability of traditional (offline) bullying victimization and perpetration (autoregressive paths) has been reported consistently positive in both CLPM and RI-CLPM (Davis et al, 2022 ; Pabian & Vandebosch, 2016 ; Romera et al, 2021 ; Zhu et al, 2022 ). However, the stability apparent in cyberbullying perpetration and cyberbullying victimization has been based on studies using traditional CLPM (Camacho et al, 2021 ; Giumetti et al, 2022 ).…”

Impacts of difficulties with emotion regulation on the longitudinal relationship between peer victimization and changes in adolescent nonsuicidal self‐injury

“…The results may seem contrary to previous studies on the interaction between stress and ER difficulties (Cavalli & Cservenka, 2021; Sui et al, 2020), but in fact, they add to each other. Previous studies that revealed an exacerbating effect of ER difficulties on the relationship between stress and NSSI primarily at the between‐person level (Voon et al, 2014), whereas within‐person relations could differ from between‐person associations (Zhu et al, 2022). It is possible that adolescents with high levels of ER difficulties engage in severe NSSI after peer victimization but only show a slight increase in NSSI.…”

“…Peer victimization is common among school‐aged children and has been recognized as a public health concern in China. Many studies have indicated a robust association between peer victimization and NSSI (Giletta et al, 2018; Jiang et al, 2016; van Geel et al, 2015), while most of them have paid much attention to between‐person differences (Zhu et al, 2022); thus, it remains unknown whether and how peer victimization influences within‐person changes in NSSI. Based on the experiential avoidance model of NSSI (Chapman et al, 2006), which suggests that emotion regulation (ER) difficulties could interact with stress to exacerbate the risk of NSSI, the current study examined the moderating role of ER difficulties in the relationship between peer victimization and NSSI changes.…”

Psychometric evaluation of an adapted version of the perceived stress scale for ecological momentary assessment research

“…Measures included here that were expected to be significantly associated with the PSS‐EMA scores were: perceived stress measured using a traditional survey method (Cohen, 1988), anxiety and depression (e.g., Pêgo et al., 2010), suicidal ideation (e.g., Zhang et al., 2012), self‐harm (e.g., Madge et al., 2011), bullying victimisation (e.g., González‐Cabrera et al., 2017), and intimate partner violence victimisation (Yim & Kofman, 2019). These measures were administered earlier in the same year as the EMA measures; however, given the tendency for these psychological and behavioural constructs to show (varying degrees of) stability in their individual differences over the timescales of the main and EMA study (Murray, Eisner, & Ribeaud, 2019; Schönfeld et al., 2019; Van Dulmen et al., 2012; Zhu et al., 2022), we anticipated that they would positively predict later EMA‐measured stress.…”