I found this recently-published article, Children who are bullied suffer worse long-term mental health problems than those who are maltreated interesting. Here are some excerpts:
A new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry shows that children who have been bullied by peers suffer worse in the longer term than those who have been maltreated by adults.
The research is led by Professor Dieter Wolke from Warwick's Department of Psychology and Warwick Medical School. The study is due to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Diego on Tuesday 28 April.
[...] Professor Wolke said: "The mental health outcomes we were looking for included anxiety, depression or suicidal tendencies. Our results showed those who were bullied were more likely to suffer from mental health problems than those who were maltreated. Being both bullied and maltreated also increased the risk of overall mental health problems, anxiety and depression in both groups."
An abstract and full article (pdf) are available.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Monday May 04 2015, @02:41PM
So mistreatment damages still-developing young minds/personalities than adults?
Because the article is about kids being bullied by other kids, as well as kids being mistreated by adults. The AC is misstating the article in suggesting that adults handle maltreatment from other adults better than kids do... which has nothing to do with the article at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @05:04PM
Ah me culpa. Guess I should brush up on *my* reading skills :)