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Bullies more at risk than bullying victims
In this study, bullying victims proved more likely to inflict self-injury or experience accidental injuries, abuse over-the-counter medications, hurt animals and people on purpose, use weapons and be absent from school, compared to students uninvolved in bullying.
However, the study, published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, also revealed that bullies and bully/victims -- students who have both bullied and been bullied -- experienced an even greater risk of these problems than victims.
Lead study author Dr. Jorge Srabstein, medical director of the Clinic for Health Problems Related to Bullying at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, said bullies and bully/victims were more likely -- with up to a fourteen-fold increased risk -- to abuse alcohol, drugs and tobacco; experience injuries requiring hospitalization; set fires; carry weapons to school; skip classes; and receive poor grades, compared to victims alone.
"We see that the (obvious) victims are not the only victims," lead study author Jorge Srabstein said in a statement. "The bullies are also victims of their own emotional problems."
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 07/16/2008
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07-17-2008 23:58
kookyspooky wrote:
"Bullies more at risk than bullying victims":
As a victim of bullies I like to say my heart go out to them. Now I feel so ashamed of being angry and scared those years going to school. You know all those times when they were taking turn to slam my head against the school's hallways wall and when they pushed me down the stair, if I knew back then what I'd just read, I could've said to them before they drop kick me on my back, "It's ok, I understand your pain. Just let it all out." If I could only turn back time.
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