Mental Health Outcomes

Mental Health Impacts of Bullying:

(PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, Bullying Statistics) 

  1. Students who face bullying face an increased risk for: (Centers for Disease Control, 2019) 
    1. Depression 
    2. Anxiety
    3. Difficulty sleeping
    4. Lower academic achievement
    5. Dropping out of school 
  2. Students may face a greater risk for behavioral problems if: (Centers for Disease Control, 2019) 
    1. They are both involved in bullying as well as a victim of bullying 
  3. Students who are bullied may show a negative impact on: (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019)
    1. Feelings towards themselves – 27%
    2. Relationships with friends and family members – 19%
    3. Their academic work – 19%
    4. Physical health – 14%
  4. Students who self-blame and assume they deserve bullying face increased negative health outcomes including: (Perren, Ettakal, & Ladd, 2013 )
    1. Depression
    2. Prolonged victimization
    3. Maladjustment 
  5. “Tweens” who experience cyberbullying may have negatively altered feelings towards themselves including: (Patchin & Hinduja, 2020)
    1. Regarding friendships – 31.9%
    2. Physical health – 13.9%
    3. Schoolwork – 6.5%

 

Reference: https://medium.com/@rantylibrarian/bullying-doesnt-cause-mental-illness-but-it-doesn-t-help-either-a9619a28b678

 

References: 

Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2019). Preventing bullying. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/yv/bullying-factsheet508.pdf

National Center for Educational Statistics. (2019). Student reports of bullying: Results from the 2017 School Crime Supplement to the National Victimization Survey. US Department of Education. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2015056  

PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Bullying Statistics. Retrieved from https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/stats.asp 

Patchin, J.W., & Hinduja, S. (2020). Tween Cyberbullying in 2020. Cyberbullying Research Center and Cartoon Network. Retrieved from: https://i.cartoonnetwork.com/stop-bullying/pdfs/CN_Stop_Bullying_Cyber_ Bullying_Report_9.30.20.pdf.

Perren, S., Ettekal, I., & Ladd, G. (2013). The impact of peer victimization on later maladjustment: Mediating and moderating effects of hostile and self-blaming attributions. Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54, 46-55. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527635/