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Adolescents with a history of being bullied or conduct problem demonstrate substantial emotional disturbances as well as psychosocial maladjustment. Data from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS), a nationwide longitudinal cohort database, were analyzed. A total of 32,390 high school students were included in this study. Data was collected via a self-report questionnaire. An estimated 9025 youth (31.8%) reported a history of bully victimization (4.0%), conduct problems (23.9%), or both (3.9%). The bullied and bullied/conduct groups demonstrated poorer fluid intelligence than the noninvolved group. Meanwhile, the bullied/conduct group had the highest depression–anxiety scores, the lowest fluid intelligence, and the poorest psychosocial adjustment. At two-year follow-up, the conduct and bullied/conduct groups reported lack of intention for further education. All three involved groups showed increased exposure to illicit drugs. These results provide evidence that school bullying and conduct problem are extensive public health threats that are worthy of prevention and intervention efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parent-child acculturation discrepancy has been considered a risk factor for child maladjustment. The current study examined parent-child acculturation discrepancy as an ongoing risk factor for delinquency, through the mediating pathway of parental knowledge of the child's daily experiences relating to contact with deviant peers. Participants were drawn from a longitudinal project with 4 years between data collection waves: 201 Chinese immigrant families participated at Wave 1 (123 girls and 78 boys) and 183 families (110 girls and 73 boys) participated at Wave 2. Based on the absolute difference in acculturation levels (tested separately for Chinese and American orientations) between adolescents and parents, one parent in each family was assigned to the 'more discrepant' group of parent-child dyads, and the other parent was assigned to the 'less discrepant' group of parent-child dyads. To explore possible within-family variations, the mediating pathways were tested separately among the more and less discrepant groups. Structural equation modeling showed that the proposed mediating pathways were significant only among the more discrepant parent-adolescent dyads in American orientation. Among these dyads, a high level of parent-child acculturation discrepancy is related to adolescent perceptions of less parental knowledge, which is related to adolescents having more contact with deviant peers, which in turn leads to more adolescent delinquency. This mediating pathway is significant concurrently, within early and middle adolescence, and longitudinally, from early to middle adolescence. These findings illuminate some of the dynamics in the more culturally discrepant parent-child dyad in a family and highlight the importance of examining parent-child acculturation discrepancy within family systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]