A longitudinal cross-lagged study of the predictive effect of adolescent peer bullying on depressive symptoms

HE Yang; CHEN Shanshan; YUAN Mengyuan; LI Yonghan; CHANG Junjie; ZHANG Tingting; WANG Gengfu; SU Puyu

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.007

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HE Yang, CHEN Shanshan, YUAN Mengyuan, LI Yonghan, CHANG Junjie, ZHANG Tingting, WANG Gengfu, SU Puyu. A longitudinal cross-lagged study of the predictive effect of adolescent peer bullying on depressive symptoms[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2022, 43(10): 1472-1475. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.007

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HE Yang, CHEN Shanshan, YUAN Mengyuan, LI Yonghan, CHANG Junjie, ZHANG Tingting, WANG Gengfu, SU Puyu. A longitudinal cross-lagged study of the predictive effect of adolescent peer bullying on depressive symptoms[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2022, 43(10): 1472-1475. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.007

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HE Yang, CHEN Shanshan, YUAN Mengyuan, LI Yonghan, CHANG Junjie, ZHANG Tingting, WANG Gengfu, SU Puyu. A longitudinal cross-lagged study of the predictive effect of adolescent peer bullying on depressive symptoms[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2022, 43(10): 1472-1475. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.007

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A longitudinal cross-lagged study of the predictive effect of adolescent peer bullying on depressive symptoms

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.007

Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University/Key Laboratory Population Health Across Life Cycle, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China/Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health and Aristogenics, Hefei (230032), China

Received Date: 2022-03-30
Rev Recd Date: 2022-04-09

Available Online: 2022-10-28

Publish Date: 2022-10-25

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Objective To explore the relationship between different types of bullying behavior and depressive symptoms among adolescents, and to provide scientific basis for further prevention of peer bullying. Methods Based on the follow-up data of 1 687 adolescents from Huaibei City, Anhui Province in September 2019 (T1) and September 2020 (T2), the autoregressive cross-lagged analysis was employed to explore the relationship between different types of peer bullying and depressive symptoms. Results The scores of bullying behaviors (physical bullying, verbal bullying, relational bullying and cyber bullying) and depressive symptoms at T2 were lower than those at T1, and the differences were statistically significant (t=13.60, 8.61, 7.24, 3.76, 8.29, P < 0.01). There was a positive correlation between bullying behavior and depressive symptoms (P < 0.01). The results from cross-lagged regression analysis showed that physical, verbal, relational and cyber bullying at T1 could positively predict depressive symptoms at T2 (β=0.06, 0.04, 0.12, 0.05), and physical, verbal, relational and cyber bullying at T1 could positively predict depressive symptoms at T2 (β=0.07, 0.10, 0.13, 0.10) (P < 0.05). Conclusion There were bidirectional associations between adolescent peer bullying and depressive symptoms.
- Violence,
- Depression,
- Mental health,
- Regression analysis,
- Adolescent

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