Bullying victimisation in childhood and mental health in early adulthood
Comparison of prospective and retrospective reports
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21620482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yanyan Ni (0000-0002-8745-3453, University of Warwick), Nicole Baumann (0000-0002-0788-8685, University of Leicester), Dieter Wolke (0000-0003-0304-268X, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 22 |
| Pages | 19666-19675 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12144-024-05788-x |
| OpenAlex | W4392354217 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 42 |
The association between childhood bullying victimisation and mental health problems in adulthood has been consistently reported in the literature. Previous studies used both retrospective and prospective reports to measure bullying victimisation. However, there could be biases in both reports. We aimed to assess agreement between prospective and retrospective reports of childhood bullying victimisation, to compare their associations with mental health in early adulthood, and to examine the associations of consistent prospectively and retrospectively reported bullying victimisation with adult mental health. Data were from the prospective Bavarian Longitudinal Study of neonatal at-risk children and term-born controls recruited at birth. 489 participants were followed from birth to age 26 (mean [SD]: 26.4 [0.8] years). Adult mental health was assessed using both the Achenbach Young Adult Self-Report (YSR) and standardised diagnostic interviews. Childhood bullying victimisation was prospectively reported by participants and parents at age 13 and retrospectively self-reported at age 26. We showed that the agreement between retrospective and prospective self-reports of bullying victimisation was fair (Kappa 0.30) with only slight agreement (Kappa 0.18) when compared with prospective parent-reports. Both prospectively and retrospectively self-reported bullying victimisation was associated with poor mental health. Retrospective reports tended to produce stronger associations. Participants who reported being bullied both retrospectively and prospectively had a particularly elevated risk for mental health problems. In conclusion, prospective and retrospective reports capture partly different individuals with exposure to bullying victimisation. Exposure to bullying victimisation, whether it was retrospectively or prospectively self-reported, was associated with an increased risk for mental health problems
Injury prevention · Longitudinal study · Medical emergency · Mental health · Poison control · Prospective cohort study · Psychiatry · Retrospective cohort study · Victimisation · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Epidemiology · Internal Medicine · Surgery
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The Impact of Dialogic Teacher Training on Students’ Peer Intervention to Address School Violence
Parental Recollections of Bullying
Adverse childhood experiences and adult employment outcomes
Direct and relational bullying among primary school children and academic achievement
Adult mental health consequences of peer bullying and maltreatment in childhood
The Association between Direct and Relational Bullying and Behaviour Problems among Primary School Children
Concordance of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI 3.0) with standardized clinical assessments in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Agreement Between Prospective and Retrospective Measures of Childhood Maltreatment
Adult Psychiatric Outcomes of Bullying and Being Bullied by Peers in Childhood and Adolescence
Long-term effects of bullying
Bullying at School
Measuring childhood maltreatment to predict early-adult psychopathology
Bully/victims
The stability of child abuse reports
Psychometric Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
The Satisfaction With Life Scale
Commentary
Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
Peer victimisation during adolescence and its impact on wellbeing in adulthood
Validity of adult retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences
Measuring child maltreatment
Early home environment and retrospective recall
Quasi-experimental evidence on short- and long-term consequences of bullying victimization
Bullies Get Away With It, But Not Everywhere
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |