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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: 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.