Sibling Bullying: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Associations with Positive and Negative Mental Health during Adolescence

Toseeb, Umar; Wolke, Dieter

doi:10.1007/s10964-021-01495-z

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“…In favor of H 2 , aligning with the existing literature, our findings suggested that autistic adolescents who had higher sibling bullying rates in early adolescence had lower levels of self-esteem in mid-adolescence (Plamondon et al, 2021;Sapouna & Wolke, 2013;Sharpe et al, 2021;Sherman et al, 2006;Skinner & Kowalski, 2013;Toseeb & Wolke, 2021), compared to those with lower rates of sibling bullying in early adolescence. Again, aligning with previous findings (Dantchev & Wolke, 2019b) based on zero-order correlations, i.e., not causal, high levels of self-esteem in early adolescence may serve as protective factors against subsequent sibling bullying involvement in mid-adolescence in autistic adolescents.…”

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“…Sibling bullying is associated with high levels of anxiety and depression (Bowes et al, 2014;Duncan, 1999;Liu et al, 2020), psychological distress and self-harm (Wolke et al, 2015), internalizing and externalizing problems (Buist & Vermande, 2014;Coyle et al, 2017;Tucker et al, 2013), and poor wellbeing (Toseeb & Wolke, 2021). These associations between sibling bullying and mental health and wellbeing appear to be comparable irrespective of the sibling bullying role (i.e., the victim or the bully) (Toseeb & Wolke, 2021). Therefore, there is an abundance of evidence demonstrating a link between sibling bullying and mental health and wellbeing in the general population.…”

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A longitudinal study of sibling bullying and mental health in autistic adolescents: The role of self‐esteem

Deniz

Toseeb

2023

Autism Research

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Sibling bullying is associated with poor mental health in autistic adolescents. The reasons for this remain unknown. In the current study, we attempted to replicate the existing findings on the direct associations between sibling bullying and mental health in autistic adolescents and expand knowledge by focusing on the indirect associations through self‐esteem. We made use of existing data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative UK‐based birth cohort study. We fitted a mediation model to longitudinal data from a sample of 416 autistic adolescents aged 11, 14, and 17 years old who had at least one sibling. We found that sibling bullying was prevalent in the lives of autistic adolescents, especially in those who were late‐diagnosed, had a shared bedroom, and lived in a low‐income household. Additionally, increased sibling bullying in early adolescence was a significant predictor of reduced self‐esteem in mid‐adolescence; in turn, reduced self‐esteem predicted poorer mental health and wellbeing in late adolescence. Our findings indicate that sibling bullying in early adolescence may indirectly lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing in late adolescence through a reduction in self‐esteem in mid‐adolescence in autistic adolescents. We discuss the implications of these findings further.

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A longitudinal study of sibling bullying and mental health in autistic adolescents: The role of self‐esteem

Deniz

Toseeb

2023

Autism Research

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“…Previous longitudinal studies have shown that sibling bullying in early adolescence predicts a range of mental health outcomes in middle and late adolescence. Being involved in any type of sibling bullying at age 11 years, either as a victim or perpetrator, is associated with higher internalising and externalising problems at age 14 years (Toseeb et al, 2020b), and lower levels of wellbeing and self-esteem at age 17 years (Toseeb & Wolke, 2021). Additionally, children who experienced frequent sibling bullying at home were twice as likely to show psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and self-harm, than the ones who did not (Bowes et al, 2014;Wolke & Skew, 2011Dantchev et al,2019b.…”

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Sibling Bullying in Turkish Adolescents: Translation and Cross-Cultural Validation of the Sibling Bullying Questionnaire

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The primary aim of this study was to translate the Sibling Bullying Questionnaire (SBQ) into Turkish and validate it. A secondary aim was to estimate the prevalence of sibling bullying in Turkish adolescents. The SBQ was translated by a team of English-Turkish bilinguals. Self-report data were collected from Turkish adolescents (N = 301) aged 10 to 18 years old (mean age = 14.25 years, SD = 2.46). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to confirm the factor structure of the newly translated Turkish SBQ (T-SBQ). Descriptive analyses were then conducted to report the characteristics of the sample and the prevalence of sibling bullying. CFA confirmed the original two-factor structure of the T-SBQ indicating that a first-order correlated two-factor model shows the best fit: x2=160.33 (p < 0.001), df = 61, RMSEA = 0.07, CFI = 0.95 and TLI = 0.93. The T-SBQ showed satisfactory levels of internal consistency in victimisation (α = 0.84) and perpetration (α = 0.83) subscales, excellent reliability in the overall test scale (α = 0.90), and a high level of convergent validity when compared with the Revised Sibling Bullying Questionnaire (α = 0.79). In terms of sibling bullying prevalence, approximately half of the adolescents (51%) reported having been involved in some form of sibling bullying in the preceding six months, either as pure-victim (18%), pure-bully (3%) or bully-victim (30%). This result aligns with the findings from other countries such as the United States (41%), Israel (51%), and the United Kingdom (49%). The T-SBQ is valid and reliable in measuring sibling bullying in Turkish adolescents and sibling bullying is prevalent in the lives of Turkish adolescents.

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“…Besides the high prevalence, exposure to sibling bullying in early childhood may lead to depression and self-harm problems, especially in early adulthood [ 28 ]. There is another piece of evidence that sibling bullying is linked to poor mental health [ 29 ], enduring reductions in mental health [ 30 ], depression and anxiety [ 27 ], and delinquent behaviors [ 31 ]. According to Wolke and Skew [ 25 ], the experience of sibling bullying increases the risk of engaging in school bullying, and this calls for studying the relationship between sibling bullying and school peer bullying.…”

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The Associations between Sibling Victimization, Sibling Bullying, Parental Acceptance–Rejection, and School Bullying

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Aljaberi

Lin

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Bullying has been identified as the most common form of aggression experienced by school-age youth. However, it is still unclear about the family’s influence on school bullying. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the associations between sibling bullying and school bullying, sibling victimization and school victimization, and parental acceptance–rejection and school bullying victimization. The study was cross-sectional and conducted on a sample of students aged between 11 and 20 years recruited from middle schools in Algeria. The study used a survey adopted from the scale of Sibling Bullying, Student Survey of Bullying Behavior—Revised 2, and the Survey of parental acceptance–rejection in collecting the data. The model’s results assessing the association between sibling bullying and school bullying demonstrated that the effect of sibling physical and sibling verbal victims on school victimization was statistically significant. Despite the non-significant effect of sibling emotional victims on school victimization, the effect of sibling physical and sibling verbal bullying on school bullying was statistically significant. However, the effect of sibling emotional bullying on school bullying was not statistically significant. The direct effect of parental acceptance on school victimization was not statistically significant, whereas the effect of parental rejection on school victimization was statistically significant. The direct effect of parental acceptance on school bullying was not statistically significant, while the effect of parental rejection on school bullying was statistically significant. Based on the results, this study provides insights into the understanding of how the family and siblings contribute to school bullying. In particular, sibling victimization, sibling bullying, and parental acceptance–rejection are predictive factors of school bullying among adolescents. Future research should take into account factors based on family to explore the risks of school bullying.

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Sibling Bullying: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Associations with Positive and Negative Mental Health during Adolescence

Cited by 22 publications

References 44 publications

A longitudinal study of sibling bullying and mental health in autistic adolescents: The role of self‐esteem

A longitudinal study of sibling bullying and mental health in autistic adolescents: The role of self‐esteem

Sibling Bullying in Turkish Adolescents: Translation and Cross-Cultural Validation of the Sibling Bullying Questionnaire

The Associations between Sibling Victimization, Sibling Bullying, Parental Acceptance–Rejection, and School Bullying

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