School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2015 Oct;16(4):379-90. doi: 10.1177/1524838014537904. Epub 2014 Jun 4.
In the wake of several highly publicized adolescent suicides attributed to bullying victimization, national attention has been brought to bear on the profound public health problem of bullying. This article reviews the extant literature on the associations between bullying perpetration, victimization, and thoughts of or attempts at suicide and proposes five potential mediators, namely depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, loneliness, and hopelessness, that may explain this relationship. Numerous studies have found empirical support for the interrelations between internalizing behaviors and both bullying perpetration and victimization and suicide. We find that further longitudinal research needs to be conducted to more conclusively determine the role and causal ordering these various psychosocial factors may play in bullying perpetration, victimization, and suicide. Although the research literature implies causal directions among all these potential mediators, untangling the unique influence of bullying perpetration, victimization, and bully victimization on suicide and its mechanisms of action has major research and practice implications.
在几起因欺凌受害而导致青少年自杀的事件被高度曝光后，全国上下开始关注欺凌这一严重的公共卫生问题。本文回顾了关于欺凌行为、受害行为以及自杀念头或自杀企图之间关联的现有文献，并提出了五个可能的中介因素，即抑郁、焦虑、低自尊、孤独和绝望，这些因素可能解释了这种关系。许多研究发现，内在行为与欺凌行为和自杀之间存在相互关系。我们发现，需要进行进一步的纵向研究，以更明确地确定这些各种社会心理因素在欺凌行为、受害行为和自杀中的作用和因果顺序。尽管研究文献暗示了所有这些潜在中介因素之间的因果关系，但厘清欺凌行为、受害行为和受欺凌者对自杀的独特影响及其作用机制具有重大的研究和实践意义。
