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A new study led by the University of Delaware found that kids who are bullied in fifth grade often suffer from depression and begin using alcohol and other substances a few years after the incidents.
"Students who experienced more frequent peer victimization in fifth grade were more likely to have greater symptoms of depression in seventh grade, and a greater likelihood of using alcohol, marijuana or tobacco in tenth grade," said the study's leader, Valerie Earnshaw, a social psychologist and assistant professor in UD's College of Education and Human Development.
The study involved researchers from universities and hospitals in six states, who analyzed data collected between 2004 and 2011 from 4,297 students on their journey from fifth through tenth grade. The findings were published online in the medical journal Pediatrics.
The students were from Birmingham, Alabama; Houston, Texas; and Los Angeles County, California. Forty-four percent were Latino, 29 percent were African American and 22 percent were white.
Do you see this being true in your own life, or in the lives of others you know?
Peer Victimization, Depressive Symptoms, and Substance Use: A Longitudinal Analysis (open, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-3426) (DX)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kaszz on Wednesday May 10 2017, @03:44AM (5 children)
The problem with that is people may be underperforming in physical intimidation but be excellent in finding water or building weapons. It selects for the wrong things in a society that advanced above tribalism.
Case in point Sparta vs Greece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @04:05AM (3 children)
> It selects for the wrong things in a society that advanced above tribalism.
This.
I am a nerd and would have been bullied much more than I was, but for a couple of happy accidents --
* in 1st grade while flailing around I happened to connect with a bully and gave him a good bloody nose. That guy (eventually a big & nasty football player in high school) never bothered me again.
* a neighborhood kid who must have been mob connected (his father officiated at a horse racing track) played with me in middle school and we found something in common (and are still loosely in touch nearly 50 years later). In high school he hung with a very tough downtown gang (rumored to be involved in heavy duty crime)...but I never asked. Anyway, people would see us talk occasionally in high school and it was known that I was his friend, which gave me a useful amount of protection (but not perfect).
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Wednesday May 10 2017, @04:24AM (2 children)
I've always been a nerd. Worse, kids used to say I looked like a girl because my parents kept my hair shoulder length. Well that stopped at school when one kid ended up chipping a tooth on the floor of the gym after I decked him in 3rd grade (I was in boarding school), and at summer camp it stopped when one kid ended up stabbed in the knee with a pen. I figured out quickly that the best form of defense is attack. Of course that was 40 years ago. Nowadays I'd probably end up in jail...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 10 2017, @05:17AM (1 child)
Correction: A school resource officer would fear for his life and shoot you (let's say a 13-year-old) dead.
If you're lucky, you might get the less-than-lethal Axon Taser pain compliance treatment.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Dunbal on Wednesday May 10 2017, @05:35AM
I was 9, but ok. Yeah they probably would have tased me and hauled me off to juvie or something. Man the world has changed. I'm starting to get why old farts don't seem to mind dying so much. I don't recognize this place. All I got was my ears pulled by the nuns and locked in an empty room for a few hours.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @06:26AM
In a less-modern world, you don't get bullied if you are good at finding water or building weapons. You are needed. You have value.
The same mostly applies in our modern world, except... few kids provide real value. Bullying runs rampant in schools partly because students aren't part of a team fighting together against nature or man. Students are unable to exchange real value with each other.
In the absence of actual value, kids invent fake value. Their minds demand it. So you get all sorts of clubs, gangs, cliques, and so on. The leftover kids become the useless overhead and/or enemy.