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The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden

AIM: To analyse the associations between bullying victimisation, disability, and self-reported psychosomatic complaints in adolescents, and to investigate the role of support from parents and teachers in such associations. METHODS: The study was based on Finnish and Swedish data from two waves (2013...

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Autores principales: Bjereld, Ylva, Augustine, Lilly, Turner, Russell, Löfstedt, Petra, Ng, Kwok
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10642226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35491912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14034948221089769
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author Bjereld, Ylva
Augustine, Lilly
Turner, Russell
Löfstedt, Petra
Ng, Kwok
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Turner, Russell
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description AIM: To analyse the associations between bullying victimisation, disability, and self-reported psychosomatic complaints in adolescents, and to investigate the role of support from parents and teachers in such associations. METHODS: The study was based on Finnish and Swedish data from two waves (2013/2014 and 2017/2018) of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey (n=16,057). Descriptive statistics were produced for four groups of adolescents: (a) bullied with disabilities; (b) not bullied with disabilities; (c) bullied without disabilities; and (d) not bullied without disabilities (reference group). Two multilevel multinomial logistic regression models were performed for the Finnish and Swedish samples separately. The first model analysed associations between psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation, controlling for a range of confounders. The second model analysed associations between psychosomatic complaints and social support from parents and teachers. RESULTS: Across both countries, bullied adolescents with disabilities were more likely to self-report psychosomatic complaints than the reference group, even after adjusting for other potential confounders. Teacher support was identified as a potential protective factor as the odds ratio for psychosomatic complaints decreased when including teacher support as a factor in the model. The association with parent support showed mixed findings in Finland and Sweden. CONCLUSIONS: Disability in combination with bullying victimisation generated the highest levels of self-reported psychosomatic complaints compared to adolescents that were not bullied nor had disabilities. High teacher support may be a protective factor against psychosomatic complaints for bullied and/or disabled adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-106422262023-11-14 The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden Bjereld, Ylva Augustine, Lilly Turner, Russell Löfstedt, Petra Ng, Kwok Scand J Public Health Original Articles AIM: To analyse the associations between bullying victimisation, disability, and self-reported psychosomatic complaints in adolescents, and to investigate the role of support from parents and teachers in such associations. METHODS: The study was based on Finnish and Swedish data from two waves (2013/2014 and 2017/2018) of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey (n=16,057). Descriptive statistics were produced for four groups of adolescents: (a) bullied with disabilities; (b) not bullied with disabilities; (c) bullied without disabilities; and (d) not bullied without disabilities (reference group). Two multilevel multinomial logistic regression models were performed for the Finnish and Swedish samples separately. The first model analysed associations between psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation, controlling for a range of confounders. The second model analysed associations between psychosomatic complaints and social support from parents and teachers. RESULTS: Across both countries, bullied adolescents with disabilities were more likely to self-report psychosomatic complaints than the reference group, even after adjusting for other potential confounders. Teacher support was identified as a potential protective factor as the odds ratio for psychosomatic complaints decreased when including teacher support as a factor in the model. The association with parent support showed mixed findings in Finland and Sweden. CONCLUSIONS: Disability in combination with bullying victimisation generated the highest levels of self-reported psychosomatic complaints compared to adolescents that were not bullied nor had disabilities. High teacher support may be a protective factor against psychosomatic complaints for bullied and/or disabled adolescents. SAGE Publications 2022-05-01 2023-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10642226/ /pubmed/35491912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14034948221089769 Text en © Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Bjereld, Ylva
Augustine, Lilly
Turner, Russell
Löfstedt, Petra
Ng, Kwok
The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden
title The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden
title_full The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden
title_fullStr The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden
title_full_unstemmed The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden
title_short The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden
title_sort association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in finland and sweden
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10642226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35491912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14034948221089769
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