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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, 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.