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CHILDREN-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/children10111823
Keywords
bullying; victims; well-being; students; adolescence; HRQoL; school
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Bullying has negative effects on the mental and physical health of children and adolescents, particularly impacting dimensions such as mood, self-perception, and parental relationships. Girls who are bullied experience significant impairments in health-related quality of life compared to their socially accepted peers and male population.
Background: Bullying is a hostile behavior repeated over a time period, affecting children and adolescents in different social settings, mainly small and stable ones like school, with negative effects on mental and physical health. In this study, we aimed to provide the degree of impairment of different variables related to health and well-being in bullying conditions, with attention to sex differences. Methods: Data were obtained from 5390 adolescents (mean age 13.08 +/- 1.89; male 2729), and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was assessed using the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire. Results: In all students, mood and emotion, self-perception, and parental relationships are the dimensions more compromised in bullying conditions, while lifestyle habit is the variable less involved. Bullied girls show a significant impairment of all HRQoL variables both with respect to the socially accepted counterpart and to the male population. Conclusions: Our study highlights the strict association between bullying and emotional and social dimensions, suggesting that enhancing them preventively could facilitate earlier detection of problems, thereby reducing health risks.
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