Liang Kaixin, Chi Xinli, Chen Si-Tong, Clark Cain Craig Truman, Zhang Yanjie, Wang Jian
School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 11;12:766804. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.766804. eCollection 2021.
Bullying victimization can impose long-lasting impacts on adolescent's current and subsequent well-being. Understanding the correlates of bullying victimization and how to prevent its occurrence is an urgent need. Food insecurity, an indicator of low socioeconomic status, may be related to bullying victimization. However, research on the association between food insecurity and bullying victimization is limited. Using a representative global sample, this study aimed to investigate the association between food insecurity and bullying victimization in adolescents and whether the association varied between country income levels, sexes, and age groups. Using cross-sectional, school-based data by 170,618 adolescents in 59 countries from the Global School-based Student Health Survey, multivariable logistic regression and meta-analysis were conducted to investigate the overall, country-stratified, sex-stratified, and age-stratified associations. The prevalence of bullying victimization was 33.3%. In the total sample, adolescents with food insecurity showed significantly higher odds for bullying victimization than those without no food insecurity with a pooled odds ratio (OR) being 1.37 (1.28, 1.47). Further, the association was stronger in higher-income countries, females, and older adolescents. Bullying victimization is prevalent among global adolescents with food insecurity being a significant correlate. The identification of adolescents with perceptions of food insecurity and remedying this condition may be important to reduce the prevalence of bullying. This highlights the need to design and implement sex- and age-specific interventions focusing on remedying food insecurity and bullying victimization among in-school adolescents by taking country income levels into account.
遭受欺凌会对青少年当前及后续的幸福产生长期影响。了解欺凌受害行为的相关因素以及如何预防其发生迫在眉睫。粮食不安全作为社会经济地位低下的一个指标，可能与欺凌受害行为有关。然而，关于粮食不安全与欺凌受害行为之间关联的研究有限。本研究使用具有代表性的全球样本，旨在调查青少年中粮食不安全与欺凌受害行为之间的关联，以及这种关联在国家收入水平、性别和年龄组之间是否存在差异。利用来自全球学校学生健康调查的59个国家170,618名青少年的横断面、基于学校的数据，进行了多变量逻辑回归和荟萃分析，以研究总体、国家分层、性别分层和年龄分层的关联。欺凌受害行为的发生率为33.3%。在总样本中，粮食不安全的青少年遭受欺凌受害的几率显著高于无粮食不安全的青少年，合并比值比（OR）为1.37（1.28，1.47）。此外，在高收入国家、女性和年龄较大的青少年中，这种关联更强。在全球青少年中，欺凌受害行为普遍存在，粮食不安全是一个重要的相关因素。识别有粮食不安全认知的青少年并改善这种状况，对于降低欺凌发生率可能很重要。这凸显了设计和实施针对性别和年龄的干预措施的必要性，这些措施应考虑国家收入水平，重点改善在校青少年的粮食不安全和欺凌受害状况。
