Fazel Mina
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Psychological Medicine, The Children's Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2025 Jul 2. doi: 10.1111/camh.70006.
This commentary reflects on a timely and methodologically significant study by Silwal et al., which investigates bullying victimization among adolescents in conflict-affected Eastern Ukraine. Conducted in a context of fragility, social fragmentation, and resource scarcity, the study offers vital insights into how war and its aftermath shape adolescent experiences. It reveals higher rates of bullying in conflict-affected regions, with girls disproportionately targeted-an uncomfortable finding that challenges conventional gender patterns in bullying. Drawing on emerging evidence, the commentary considers the role of desensitization, emotional regulation, and digital exposure in shaping youth aggression. It also highlights the need to address the structural stressors facing adolescents in both post-conflict and post-migration contexts, particularly within disrupted school systems. In response, the commentary calls for integrated and context-responsive interventions that strengthen emotional and social competencies without reinforcing stigma. It further urges researchers and policymakers to acknowledge the politicized nature of post-migration violence discourse and to maintain commitment to nuanced and context-sensitive analysis. The findings underscore that bullying in such settings is a social indicator of wider systemic pressures-an expression of the hidden wars adolescents carry in their daily lives and into their schools.
这篇评论文章反思了西尔瓦尔等人开展的一项及时且在方法上具有重要意义的研究，该研究调查了受冲突影响的乌克兰东部青少年中的欺凌受害情况。这项研究是在脆弱性、社会碎片化和资源稀缺的背景下进行的，它为战争及其后果如何塑造青少年的经历提供了至关重要的见解。研究表明，在受冲突影响的地区，欺凌发生率更高，女孩成为不成比例的目标——这一令人不安的发现挑战了欺凌中传统的性别模式。基于新出现的证据，这篇评论文章探讨了脱敏、情绪调节和数字接触在塑造青少年攻击性方面的作用。它还强调了在冲突后和移民后背景下应对青少年所面临的结构性压力源的必要性，尤其是在受到破坏的学校系统中。作为回应，这篇评论文章呼吁采取综合且因地制宜的干预措施，以增强情绪和社交能力，同时不强化污名化。它还敦促研究人员和政策制定者认识到移民后暴力话语的政治化性质，并坚持进行细致入微且因地制宜的分析。研究结果强调，在这种环境下的欺凌是更广泛系统性压力的一个社会指标——是青少年在日常生活和学校中所经历的隐性战争的一种表现。
