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- Title
Developmental Relations Between Bullying Victimization and Suicidal Ideation in Middle Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Do Internalizing Problems and Substance Use Mediate Their Links?
- Authors
Zhu, Xinxin; Griffiths, Helen; Eisner, Manuel; Hepp, Urs; Ribeaud, Denis; Murray, Aja Louise
- Abstract
Previous research has suggested that bullying victimization is associated with higher suicidal risk among young people; however, the mechanisms underlying this relation have not been well examined. The current study aimed to illuminate the developmental links between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation by examining the mediating roles of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and substance use. The study sample consisted of n = 1465 participants (51.7% male) from the normative z-proso study. Using random intercept cross-lagged panel models and three waves of longitudinal data (ages 15, 17, and 20), the hypothesized mediation effects at the within-person level were tested while partialling out between-person confounds. The results suggested that, at the within-person level, bullying victimization did not predict subsequent suicidal ideation via depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, or substance use. However, age 15 bullying victimization predicted within-person increases in age 17 depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. In addition, depressive symptoms at age 15 and tobacco and cannabis use at age 17 were associated with within-person increases in bullying victimization at ages 17 and 20, respectively. The results also indicated that cannabis use and suicidal ideation were positively and reciprocally related over time. Future studies collecting data at multiple timescales are needed to understand proximal and longer-term mechanisms underlying the relation between bullying victimization and suicidality.
- Subjects
BULLYING &; psychology; MENTAL illness; SUBSTANCE abuse &; psychology; VICTIM psychology; SUICIDAL ideation; MENTAL depression; ANXIETY; ADULTS; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 2022, Vol 51, Issue 9, p1745
- ISSN
0047-2891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10964-022-01630-4