Anat Brunstein Klomek1,2, Shira Barzilay1,3, Alan Apter1, Vladimir Carli4, Christina W Hoven5,6, Marco Sarchiapone7,8,9, Gergö Hadlaczky4, Judit Balazs10,11, Agnes Kereszteny10,11, Romuald Brunner12, Michael Kaess13, Julio Bobes14, Pilar A Saiz14, Doina Cosman15, Christian Haring16, Raphaela Banzer17, Elaine McMahon18, Helen Keeley18, Jean-Pierre Kahn19, Vita Postuvan20, Tina Podlogar20, Merike Sisask21,22, Airi Varnik21,23, Danuta Wasserman4. 1. Feinberg Child Study Centre, Schneider Children's Medical Centre, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2. Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzlyia, Israel. 3. Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. 4. National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 5. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. 6. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. 7. Department of Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. 8. National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty, Rome, Italy. 9. Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 10. Vadaskert Child Psychiatry Hospital, Budapest, Hungary. 11. Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. 12. Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre of Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 13. University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 14. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. 15. Clinical Psychology Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 16. Department Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, State Hospital Hall in Tyrol, Hall in Tyrol, Austria. 17. Addiction help services B.I.N., Innsbruck, Austria. 18. National Suicide Research Foundation, Cork, Ireland. 19. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire (CHU) de Nancy, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France. 20. Slovene Center for Suicide Research, UP IAM, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia. 21. Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute (ERSI), Tallinn, Estonia. 22. School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia. 23. School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The association between bullying victimization and depression, suicide ideation and suicide attempts has been studied mainly in cross-sectional studies. This study aims to test the bidirectional effect and the chronicity versus sporadic effect of physical, verbal, and relational bullying victimization on suicidal ideation/attempts and depression. METHODS: Longitudinal assessments with an interval of 3- and 12-months were performed within a sample of 2,933 adolescents (56.1% females; mean age 14.78, SD = .89) from 10 European countries, participating in the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) school-based multicenter control sample. Multilevel Structural Equation Models were used, controlling for sociodemographic variables. Victimization was considered chronic when a student was victimized in the first two time points and sporadic when it was reported only at one point but not in another. RESULTS: Bidirectional prospective association between all types of victimization and depression were found. Among participants, who reported victimization once (but not twice), physical victimization, but not verbal and relational, was associated with later suicidal ideation and attempts. Chronic victimization of any type increased likelihood for later depression compared with sporadic and no-victimization. Chronic relational victimization increased the likelihood of later suicidal ideation, and chronic physical victimization increased the likelihood for suicidal attempts. CONCLUSIONS: The results support the bidirectional effect of victimization and depression and indicate that there are complex longitudinal associations between victimization and suicidal ideation/attempts. Physical victimization may especially carry effect on suicidal risk over time. Interventions should focus on victimization as a cause of distress but also aim to prevent vulnerable adolescents from becoming targets of victimization.
BACKGROUND: The association between bullying victimization and depression, suicide ideation and suicide attempts has been studied mainly in cross-sectional studies. This study aims to test the bidirectional effect and the chronicity versus sporadic effect of physical, verbal, and relational bullying victimization on suicidal ideation/attempts and depression. METHODS: Longitudinal assessments with an interval of 3- and 12-months were performed within a sample of 2,933 adolescents (56.1% females; mean age 14.78, SD = .89) from 10 European countries, participating in the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) school-based multicenter control sample. Multilevel Structural Equation Models were used, controlling for sociodemographic variables. Victimization was considered chronic when a student was victimized in the first two time points and sporadic when it was reported only at one point but not in another. RESULTS: Bidirectional prospective association between all types of victimization and depression were found. Among participants, who reported victimization once (but not twice), physical victimization, but not verbal and relational, was associated with later suicidal ideation and attempts. Chronic victimization of any type increased likelihood for later depression compared with sporadic and no-victimization. Chronic relational victimization increased the likelihood of later suicidal ideation, and chronic physical victimization increased the likelihood for suicidal attempts. CONCLUSIONS: The results support the bidirectional effect of victimization and depression and indicate that there are complex longitudinal associations between victimization and suicidal ideation/attempts. Physical victimization may especially carry effect on suicidal risk over time. Interventions should focus on victimization as a cause of distress but also aim to prevent vulnerable adolescents from becoming targets of victimization.
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