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Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts in Chinese Adolescents Involved in Different Sub-types of Bullying: A Cross-Sectional Study
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 11 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media SA, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background: Bullying tends to peak during adolescence, and it is an important risk factor of self-harm and suicide. However, research on the specific effect of different sub-types of bullying is limited.Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the associations between four common forms of bullying (verbal, physical, relational, and cyber) and self-harm, suicidal ideation (SI), and suicide attempts (SA).Method: This was a cross-sectional study of a sample including 4,241 Chinese students (55.8% boys) aged 11 to 18 years. Bullying involvement, self-harm, SI, and SA were measured via The Juvenile Campus Violence Questionnaire (JCVQ). The association was examined through multinomial logistic regression analysis, adjusted for demographic characteristics and psychological distress.Results: Bullying victimization and perpetration were reported by 18.0 and 10.7% of participants. The prevalence of self-harm, SI, and SA were 11.8, 11.8, and 7.1%, respectively. Relational bullying victimization and perpetration were significantly associated with SI only, SI plus self-harm, and SA. Physical bullying victimization and perpetration were risk factors of self-harm only and SA. Verbal victimization was significantly associated with SI only. Cyber perpetration was a risk factor of SA.Conclusions: The findings highlight the different effects of sub-types of bullying on self-harm and suicidal risk. Anti-bullying intervention and suicide prevention efforts should be prior to adolescents who are involved in physical and relational bullying.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:RC435-571
Cross-sectional study
Suicide prevention
self-harm
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
lcsh:Psychiatry
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
adolescents
suicide attempts
030212 general & internal medicine
Risk factor
Suicidal ideation
Original Research
Psychiatry
Multinomial logistic regression analysis
030227 psychiatry
suicidal ideation
Psychiatry and Mental health
Harm
bullying
Sub types
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16640640
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fbefef21dab4c171c095157ce7c2d76e