CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 150Bullying, Victimization, and AggressionSuicide and Self-Harm StudiesWorkplace Violence and Bullying

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 41 of the 41 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Victims of bullying in childhood and suicide attempts in adulthood

Meltzer, H., Vostanis, P., Ford, T., Bebbington, P, Dennis, M.S.·2011·European Psychiatry
DOI 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.11.006
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Purpose: To examine whether self-reported exposure to bullying during childhood is associated with suicide attempts over the life course, and if so, what mechanisms could account for this relationship. Subjects and methods: A random probability sample comprising 7461 respondents was interviewed for the 2007 survey of psychiatric morbidity of adults in Great Britain. Survey respondents were asked about suicidal attempts and whether they were bullied in childhood. Results: Recall of being bullied in childhood decreased with age from 25% of 16–24-year-olds to 4% among those 75 or over with few differences in the proportions between men and women. Bullying co-occurred with several victimisation experiences including sexual abuse and severe beatings and with running away from home. Even after controlling for lifetime factors known to increase the risk of suicidal behaviour, adults who reported bullying in childhood were still more than twice as likely as other adults to attempt suicide later in life. Discussion: Being the victim of bullying involves the experience of suffering a defeat and humiliation that in turn could lead to entrapment, hopelessness, depression and suicidal behaviour. Conclusions: Bullying is already known to be associated with substantial distress and other negative consequences and this further evidence of a strong correlation with the risk of suicide in later life should increase further the motivation of society, services and citizens to act decisively to reduce bullying in childhood.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.11.006

Cites

41 of 41 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. 10.1037/0012-1649.34.2.299 · DOI
  2. 10.2466/PMS.104.3.1060-1066 · DOI
  3. Kish, 1965, Survey Sampling

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 150

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Meltzer, H., Vostanis, P., Ford, T., Bebbington, P., & Dennis, M. S.
Affiliations
  • University of Leicester (GB)
  • University of Exeter (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
  • Swansea University (GB)
Corresponding author
Meltzer, H.
ORCID
Venue
European Psychiatry
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-11
Volume
26
Issue
8
Pages
498-503
ISSN
  • 0924-9338 (ISSN-L)
  • 1778-3585
DOI
10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.11.006
OpenAlex
W2132710722
Cited by
150
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 9
FWCI
12.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 3089 d)
Locations
  • European Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Workplace Violence and Bullying
Keywords
childhood bullying, bullying victimization, suicide attempts, suicidal behavior, sexual abuse, running away from home, depression, hopelessness, humiliation, life course, psychiatric morbidity
MeSH terms
Adult, Depression, Female, United Kingdom, Humans, Male, Risk Factors, Social Problems, Suicide, Attempted, Prevalence, Crime Victims, Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, Self Report, Bullying

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review