Longitudinal associations between bullying and mental health among adolescents in Vietnam

Abstract

This is the first longitudinal analysis of bullying among adolescents in Vietnam. Persistent and frequent bullying was strongly linked with poor mental health for males and females. A new observation is that Vietnamese girls appear to be more sensitive to low level but long-term bullying involvement than were boys.

Temporal patterns and predictors of bullying roles among adolescents in Vietnam: a school-based cohort study

“…Subsequently, we measured temporal patterns of each bullying role by following Turner and his colleague's classification (Turner, Shattuck, Finkelhor, & Hamby, 2015) to categorise the respondents into four levels of bullying involvement: stable-low, declining, increasing, and stable-high. Further details of generating the patterns of bullying roles over Times 1 and 2 have been provided elsewhere (Le et al, 2016b). The levels of stability in bullying roles across two times were: (i) not involved in any bullying at either time, accounting for 38.9% of the sample, (ii) victims only, accounting for 24% (of these students, 58.2% were stable-low, 17.0% declining at time 2, 14.3% increasing at time 2, 10.5% were stable-high), (iii) bullies only, accounting for 6.6% (of them, 23.4% were stable-low, 36.2% were declining, 40.4% were increasing which included just 4 students who were involved at stable-high level), and (iv) bully-victims, accounting for 40.4% (of these students, 52.8% were stable-low, 19.3% declining, 14.5% increasing, and 13.4% were stable-high).…”

Remaining connected in the face of cyberbullying: Why social connectedness is important for mental health

“…Cyberbullying, defined as an aggressive, repeated, intentional act carried out on an individual using electronic forms (Smith et al, ) can have serious mental health implications, such as higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress and a higher risk of suicidal ideation among those involved (Campbell, Spears, Slee, Butler, & Kift, ; Fahy et al, ; Kim, Georgiades, Comeau, Vitoroulis, & Boyle, ; Le et al, ; Spears, Taddeo, Daly, Stretton, & Karklins, ; van Geel, Vedder, & Tanilon, ). The criteria of a power imbalance and repetition, and a lack of an agreed definition (Palfrey, Boyd, & Sacco, ), however, are the center of constant debate among cyberbullying researchers.…”

“…stress and a higher risk of suicidal ideation among those involved (Campbell, Spears, Slee, Butler, & Kift, 2012;Fahy et al, 2016;Kim, Georgiades, Comeau, Vitoroulis, & Boyle, 2016;Le et al, 2017;Spears, Taddeo, Daly, Stretton, & Karklins, 2015; van Geel, Vedder, & Tanilon, 2014). The criteria of a power imbalance and repetition, and a lack of an agreed definition (Palfrey, Boyd, & Sacco, 2008), however, are the center of constant debate among cyberbullying researchers.…”

Acoso escolar (bullying) como factor de riesgo de depresión y suicidio

“…Le y cols. 15 describieron que los adolescentes involucrados en bullying, ya sea como víctima o perpetradorvíctima, presentan más síntomas depresivos respecto a los no involucrados. Al aplicar análisis multivariado determinaron que quienes presentan altos niveles de victimización son más propensos a presentar síntomas tabla 1. detalle de origen y tamaño de muestra, diseño de estudio e instrumentos utilizados en cada estudio (continuación) depresivos (β = 6,6, p < 0,001), junto también a quienes siendo perpetradores-víctimas mantienen un alto nivel de agresión hacia otros (β = 6,1 y β = 6,0 respectivamente, ambos p < 0,001).…”