Christensen James B, Jones Melissa S, Hoffmann John P
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2025 May;40(9-10):2031-2054. doi: 10.1177/08862605241270006. Epub 2024 Aug 9.
Recent research suggests that bullying victimization increases the risk of handgun carrying among adolescents. Yet, little to no research has considered whether different types of bullying victimization (i.e., physical, verbal, cyber) shape handgun-carrying behaviors among youth. Understanding these relationships can, however, inform intervention efforts addressing youths' access to and motives for carrying handguns. The purposes of this study are twofold. First, we establish whether there is a relationship between bullying victimization and youth handgun carrying. Second, we seek to determine whether certain types of bullying victimization are associated more strongly with handgun carrying than others, using data from the 2022 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (FYSAS, = 47,572), a statewide representative sample of Florida middle school and high school students. The results from multinomial regression models indicate that physical bullying and cyberbullying victimization were associated with an elevated risk of carrying a handgun in the past 12 months. Interventions that underscore the importance of comprehensive anti-bullying interventions that not only address traditional physical aggression among adolescents but also mitigate the evolving challenges posed by unsupervised digital spaces may reduce the risk of handgun carrying.
近期研究表明，遭受欺凌会增加青少年携带手枪的风险。然而，几乎没有研究考虑过不同类型的欺凌受害情况（即身体欺凌、言语欺凌、网络欺凌）是否会影响青少年携带手枪的行为。不过，了解这些关系有助于为解决青少年获取手枪及携带手枪动机的干预措施提供信息。本研究有两个目的。第一，我们要确定欺凌受害情况与青少年携带手枪之间是否存在关联。第二，我们试图利用2022年佛罗里达青少年药物滥用调查（FYSAS，n = 47,572）的数据，该调查是佛罗里达中学和高中学生的全州代表性样本，来确定某些类型的欺凌受害情况与携带手枪的关联是否比其他类型更强。多项回归模型的结果表明，身体欺凌和网络欺凌受害情况与过去12个月内携带手枪的风险升高有关。强调全面反欺凌干预措施重要性的干预行动，不仅要解决青少年之间传统的身体攻击问题，还要缓解无监管数字空间带来的不断演变的挑战，这可能会降低携带手枪的风险。
