@article{ref1,
title="Changes in peer and sibling victimization in early adolescence: longitudinal associations with multiple indices of mental health in a prospective birth cohort  study",
journal="European child and adolescent psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Sharpe, Helen and Patalay, Praveetha and Duffy, Fiona and Fink, Elian",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Victimization by peers and siblings is associated with poorer mental health outcomes in adolescence. What is less clear is whether mental health outcomes improve if  victimization experiences cease (e.g., being victimized in primary school but not  secondary school). This study aims to explore how changes in victimization  experiences are associated with changes in mental health outcomes in early  adolescence. Data are from 13,912 participants in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS),  a nationally representative cohort of individuals born in the UK. Self-reported  victimization by peers and siblings, as well as mental health outcomes (depressive  symptoms, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and body image), were collected at age 11  and age 14. Victimization at either time point was associated with poorer mental  health across the range of outcomes, with effects largest for those who were  consistently victimized. Those who reported increasing victimization had greater  deterioration in their mental health compared with their peers who were never  victimized. Conversely, children whose victimization decreased showed similar mental  health development over this period as those who were never victimized. There was a  cumulative effect of victimization by peers and siblings, with effect sizes  generally larger for experiences with peers. Victimization in adolescence is  associated with enduring reductions in mental health. Nonetheless, the promising  outcomes associated with reductions in victimization suggest the potential for  bullying interventions in schools to limit the deterioration in mental health in  victimized groups.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1018-8827",
doi="10.1007/s00787-020-01708-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01708-z"
}