Correlation analysis of school bullying and depressive symptoms among multi-ethnic adolescents in western China

TANG Chengmeng; JIANG Jianjun; PENG Wei; ZHANG Qiang; YAN Mingxia; CHEN Jiayi; ZHAO Ying; LI Kehan; LIU Qiaolan

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.006

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TANG Chengmeng, JIANG Jianjun, PENG Wei, ZHANG Qiang, YAN Mingxia, CHEN Jiayi, ZHAO Ying, LI Kehan, LIU Qiaolan. Correlation analysis of school bullying and depressive symptoms among multi-ethnic adolescents in western China[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2022, 43(10): 1467-1471. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.006

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TANG Chengmeng, JIANG Jianjun, PENG Wei, ZHANG Qiang, YAN Mingxia, CHEN Jiayi, ZHAO Ying, LI Kehan, LIU Qiaolan. Correlation analysis of school bullying and depressive symptoms among multi-ethnic adolescents in western China[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2022, 43(10): 1467-1471. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.006

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TANG Chengmeng, JIANG Jianjun, PENG Wei, ZHANG Qiang, YAN Mingxia, CHEN Jiayi, ZHAO Ying, LI Kehan, LIU Qiaolan. Correlation analysis of school bullying and depressive symptoms among multi-ethnic adolescents in western China[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2022, 43(10): 1467-1471. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.006

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Correlation analysis of school bullying and depressive symptoms among multi-ethnic adolescents in western China

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2022.10.006

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Department of Health Behavior and Social Medicine, West China School of Public Health/West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, West China-Union Chen Zhiqian Health Research Institute, Chengdu (610041), China

Received Date: 2022-04-30
Rev Recd Date: 2022-05-24

Available Online: 2022-10-28

Publish Date: 2022-10-25

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Objective To understand the prevalence of school bullying and depressive symptoms among the Han, Yi, and Tibetan adolescents in western China, and to explore the relationships between bullying roles, bullying frequency and depression symptoms. Methods A combination method of typical sampling and cluster sampling was used to recruit 3 115 participants from six primary and middle schools in Cangxi County and Ganluo County in Sichuan Province, and Lhasa City in Tibet Autonomous Region from April to November 2020. All participants completed self-filled questionnaires. Multiple Logistic regression was used to analyze the association between school bullying and depression symptoms. Results A total of 881 participants (28.3%) had experienced school bullying in the past 6 months, and 892 participants(28.6%) were detected with depressive symptoms. The rates of school bullying in the Han, Yi, and Tibetan adolescents were 20.5%, 46.4% and 23.8%, respectively. Among them, the rates of victims were 15.3%, 25.0% and 11.8%, respectively; the rates of bully were 2.3%, 5.7% and 6.7%, respectively; the rates of bully-victims were 2.9%, 5.7% and 5.4%, respectively. The prevalence of depressive symptoms in the Han, Yi, and Tibetan adolescents were 20.4%, 37.9% and 36.5%, respectively. After adjusting for age, grade, ethnicity, smoking, and drinking, the odds for depressive symptoms among victims (AOR=1.98, 95%CI=1.61-2.45), bully (AOR=2.63, 95%CI=1.81-3.82), and bully-victims (AOR=3.33, 95%CI=2.44-4.54) were significantly higher than those without school bullying experience(P < 0.01). And the risks increased with the increasing bullying frequency. Conclusion School bullying and depressive symptoms of the Yi and the Tibetan adolescents in western China were higher than those of the Han adolescents. Meanwhile, participation in school bullying and the high frequency of bullying were closely related to depressive symptoms. Future interventions should pay attention to various bullying roles and minority adolescents.
- Violence,
- Depression,
- Mental health,
- Regression analysis,
- Adolescent,
- Minority groups

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