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An Entangled Relationship between Bullying Perception and Psychosocial Dimensions in a Sample of Young Adolescents

Background: Bullying is a hostile behavior repeated over a time period, affecting children and adolescents in different social settings, mainly small and stable ones like school, with negative effects on mental and physical health. In this study, we aimed to provide the degree of impairment of diffe...

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Autores principales: Mastorci, Francesca, Lazzeri, Maria Francesca Lodovica, Piaggi, Paolo, Doveri, Cristina, Casu, Anselmo, Trivellini, Gabriele, Marinaro, Irene, Devine, Caleb, Vassalle, Cristina, Pingitore, Alessandro
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38002916
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10111823
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author Mastorci, Francesca
Lazzeri, Maria Francesca Lodovica
Piaggi, Paolo
Doveri, Cristina
Casu, Anselmo
Trivellini, Gabriele
Marinaro, Irene
Devine, Caleb
Vassalle, Cristina
Pingitore, Alessandro
author_facet Mastorci, Francesca
Lazzeri, Maria Francesca Lodovica
Piaggi, Paolo
Doveri, Cristina
Casu, Anselmo
Trivellini, Gabriele
Marinaro, Irene
Devine, Caleb
Vassalle, Cristina
Pingitore, Alessandro
author_sort Mastorci, Francesca
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description Background: Bullying is a hostile behavior repeated over a time period, affecting children and adolescents in different social settings, mainly small and stable ones like school, with negative effects on mental and physical health. In this study, we aimed to provide the degree of impairment of different variables related to health and well-being in bullying conditions, with attention to sex differences. Methods: Data were obtained from 5390 adolescents (mean age 13.08 ± 1.89; male 2729), and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was assessed using the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire. Results: In all students, mood and emotion, self-perception, and parental relationships are the dimensions more compromised in bullying conditions, while lifestyle habit is the variable less involved. Bullied girls show a significant impairment of all HRQoL variables both with respect to the socially accepted counterpart and to the male population. Conclusions: Our study highlights the strict association between bullying and emotional and social dimensions, suggesting that enhancing them preventively could facilitate earlier detection of problems, thereby reducing health risks.
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spelling pubmed-106705472023-11-17 An Entangled Relationship between Bullying Perception and Psychosocial Dimensions in a Sample of Young Adolescents Mastorci, Francesca Lazzeri, Maria Francesca Lodovica Piaggi, Paolo Doveri, Cristina Casu, Anselmo Trivellini, Gabriele Marinaro, Irene Devine, Caleb Vassalle, Cristina Pingitore, Alessandro Children (Basel) Article Background: Bullying is a hostile behavior repeated over a time period, affecting children and adolescents in different social settings, mainly small and stable ones like school, with negative effects on mental and physical health. In this study, we aimed to provide the degree of impairment of different variables related to health and well-being in bullying conditions, with attention to sex differences. Methods: Data were obtained from 5390 adolescents (mean age 13.08 ± 1.89; male 2729), and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was assessed using the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire. Results: In all students, mood and emotion, self-perception, and parental relationships are the dimensions more compromised in bullying conditions, while lifestyle habit is the variable less involved. Bullied girls show a significant impairment of all HRQoL variables both with respect to the socially accepted counterpart and to the male population. Conclusions: Our study highlights the strict association between bullying and emotional and social dimensions, suggesting that enhancing them preventively could facilitate earlier detection of problems, thereby reducing health risks. MDPI 2023-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10670547/ /pubmed/38002916 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10111823 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mastorci, Francesca
Lazzeri, Maria Francesca Lodovica
Piaggi, Paolo
Doveri, Cristina
Casu, Anselmo
Trivellini, Gabriele
Marinaro, Irene
Devine, Caleb
Vassalle, Cristina
Pingitore, Alessandro
An Entangled Relationship between Bullying Perception and Psychosocial Dimensions in a Sample of Young Adolescents
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title_fullStr An Entangled Relationship between Bullying Perception and Psychosocial Dimensions in a Sample of Young Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed An Entangled Relationship between Bullying Perception and Psychosocial Dimensions in a Sample of Young Adolescents
title_short An Entangled Relationship between Bullying Perception and Psychosocial Dimensions in a Sample of Young Adolescents
title_sort entangled relationship between bullying perception and psychosocial dimensions in a sample of young adolescents
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38002916
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10111823
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