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from the won't-someone-think-of-the-children dept.
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 Whoever on Monday May 04 2015, @07:15PM
And how do you know with such certainty how "they" were picked?
On this and other message boards, I have seen similar victim blaming when discussing bullying. I assume that the person blaming the victims was him/herself a bully at school.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @01:05PM
Well, victim-blaming is a conservative tradition. Apparently suffering because of other people's actions, whether from being bullied or raped or mugged, is a sign of moral weakness or something, plus White Jesus says the fact that it happened proves that you deserved it. Blaming the victim doesn't necessarily mean the blamer would do the action themselves, just that they're a sociopath.