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Bullied teens may get to carry arms to school
Bullied Teens May Get To Carry Arms To School. High school students subjected to bullying and other forms of harassment are more likely to report being seriously depressed, consider suicide and carry weapons to school, according to new US research.
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Washington: High school students subjected to bullying and other forms of harassment are more likely to report being seriously depressed, consider suicide and carry weapons to school, according to new US research.
"Teens can be the victim of face-to-face bullying in school, electronic bullying outside of the classroom and dating violence," said Andrew Adesman, senior investigator of three studies on bullying presented at the Paediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Diego.
"Each of these experiences is associated with a range of serious adverse consequences," Adesman said.
All three studies were based on data collected by the US Centres for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) as part of its 2013 Youth Risk Behaviour Surveillance System - a biannual questionnaire of teens in grades 9-12 in all 50 states that is constructed to provide a representative sample of high school students in the US.
Tammy Pham, the principal investigator, said it was very important to create more effective strategies to prevent bullying in all forms.
In a second study of bullying, the investigators found that bullying, physical dating violence and/or sexual dating violence were each associated with teens not attending school or carrying weapons to school.
Alexis Tchaconas, the principal investigator of this study, said that bullying and dating violence were more common than many might expect.
The third study on bullying focused on teens who were victims of bullying in the past 12 months and investigated whether there are gender differences in the association of carrying a weapon to school.
On the one hand, boys were overall more likely to carry a weapon to school than girls, regardless of victim status.
On the other hand, girls who were the victims of bullying were more than three times as likely to carry a weapon as girls who were not victimised; by contrast, male victims were less than twice as likely to carry a weapon compared to male non-victims.
"The prevalence of school bullying has serious implications for the safety of all students - both the victims of bullying and the non-victims," said Pham, the principal investigator of this study.
