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| Title |
Defending behaviors, bullying roles, and their associations with mental health in junior high school students: a population-based study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, October 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-016-3721-6 |
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| Authors |
Wen-Chi Wu, Shyuemeng Luu, Dih-Ling Luh |
| Abstract |
Students should be encouraged to help prevent or stop bullying. However, defending victims of bullying can impact on mental health. It is not only bystanders who may defend victims, but bullies, victims and bully-victims can also have defending behaviors. Nevertheless, most studies of defending behaviors have been limited to an examination of the reactions of bystanders or those not involved in bullying and have ignored the other players. The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between defending behaviors and mental health among bullies, victims, bully-victims and bystanders. Associations among defending behaviors, mental health (including depressive symptoms and social anxiety), and bullying experiences were cross-sectionally examined in 3441 students (13-15 years old.) from 20 randomly selected junior high schools in Taiwan using a self-report questionnaire. SAS 9.3 Survey Analysis procedures were used to conduct descriptive analysis and multiple regression models. Defending behaviors were associated with bullying roles and were higher in victims than in bullies or bystanders. Defending behaviors were positively associated with social anxiety and depressive symptoms. After stratifying by bullying roles, defending behaviors were positively associated with social anxiety in bystanders, and were positively associated with depressive symptoms in victims and bystanders. However, defending behaviors were not significantly associated with mental health indicators in bullies. The associations between defending behaviors and mental health varied according to bullying roles. The results suggest that bystanders and victims experience more mental health effects than bullies. Intervention programs aimed at preventing bullying should focus on strategies that minimize social anxiety and depression in victims and bystanders, and urge students to help vulnerable peers during bullying events. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 165 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 165 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 23 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 7% |
| Researcher | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 14% |
| Unknown | 60 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 47 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 7% |
| Unknown | 66 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 April 2023.
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#3,289,167
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#4,049
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#52,409
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#61
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