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Longitudinal Associations Between Cyberbullying Involvement and Adolescent Mental Health

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Fahy, Amanda E., Stansfeld, Stephen A., Smuk, Melanie, Smith, Neil R., Cummins, Steven, Clark, Charlotte·2016·Journal of Adolescent Health
DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.006
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Purpose Cyberbullying differs from face-to-face bullying and may negatively influence adolescent mental health, but there is a lack of definitive research on this topic. This study examines longitudinal associations between cyberbullying involvement and adolescent mental health.Methods Participants were 2,480 teenagers taking part in the Olympic Regeneration in East London study. We collected information from participants when they were 12-13 years old and again 1 year later to examine links between involvement in cyberbullying and future symptoms of depression and social anxiety, and mental well-being.Results At baseline, 14% reported being cybervictims, 8% reported being cyberbullies, and 20% reported being cyberbully-victims in the previous year. Compared to uninvolved adolescents, cybervictims and cyberbully-victims were significantly more likely to report symptoms of depression (cybervictims: odds ratio [OR] = 1.44, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.00, 2.06]; cyberbully-victims: OR = 1.54, 95% CI [1.13, 2.09]) and social anxiety (cybervictims: OR = 1.52, 95% CI [1.11, 2.07]; cyberbully-victims: OR = 1.44, 95% CI [1.10, 1.89]) but not below average well-being (cybervictims: relative risk ratio = 1.28, 95% CI [.86, 1.91]; cyberbully-victims: relative risk ratio = 1.38, 95% CI [.95, 1.99]) at 1 year follow-up, after adjustment for confounding factors including baseline mental health.Conclusions This study emphasizes the high prevalence of cyberbullying and the potential of cybervictimization as a risk factor for future depressive symptoms, social anxiety symptoms, and below average well-being among adolescents. Future research should identify protective factors and possible interventions to reduce adolescent cyberbullying.

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  • Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation are commonly identified as psychological consequences of cyberbullying victimization.

    “Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation are commonly identified as psychological consequences of cyberbullying victimization36,81–83.”

    From Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization (2024) · cites this paper as [81]

    The Discussion and Results report that adolescent cybervictims were more likely than uninvolved peers to report depressive and social anxiety symptoms at follow-up. The paper does not report suicidal ideation as an outcome, and its longitudinal associations do not establish that victimization caused the symptoms. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Cyberbullying can lead to increased levels of anxiety and depression.

    “increased levels of anxiety and depression [7]”

    From Cyberbullying Sexism Harassment Identification by Metaheurustics-Tuned eXtreme Gradient Boosting (2024) · cites this paper as [7]

  • NLP can be used for text content analysis to detect patterns of abusive language, threats, derogatory remarks, and other harmful behavior.

    “Natural language processing (NLP) can be used for text content analysis, such as social media posts, comments, and messages, to detect patterns of abusive language, threats, derogatory remarks, and other harmful behavior.”

    From Cyberbullying Sexism Harassment Identification by Metaheurustics-Tuned eXtreme Gradient Boosting (2024) · cites this paper as [7]

    The Cyberbullying involvement section describes a questionnaire used to assess adolescents’ experiences, and the Analytic approach section describes logistic regression of mental-health outcomes. Neither those passages nor the passages found by searching for NLP and automated analysis of social-media text address using NLP to detect abusive or threatening language. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • Cyberbullying is associated with anxiety, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation.

    “It is associated with anxiety, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, and reportedly has a stronger association with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation than traditional bullying (Bottino, Bottino, Regina, Correia, & Ribeiro, 2015;Fahy et al., 2016;Hamm et al., 2015;John et al., 2018;Katsaras et al., 2018;Nixon, 2014;van Geel, Vedder, & Tanilon, 2014).”

    From Young people’s conceptualizations of the nature of cyberbullying: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research (2020) · cites this paper as Fahy et al., 2016

  • Cyberbullying reportedly has a stronger association with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation than traditional bullying.

    “It is associated with anxiety, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, and reportedly has a stronger association with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation than traditional bullying (Bottino, Bottino, Regina, Correia, & Ribeiro, 2015;Fahy et al., 2016;Hamm et al., 2015;John et al., 2018;Katsaras et al., 2018;Nixon, 2014;van Geel, Vedder, & Tanilon, 2014).”

    From Young people’s conceptualizations of the nature of cyberbullying: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research (2020) · cites this paper as Fahy et al., 2016

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Authors
Fahy, A. E., Stansfeld, S. A., Smuk, M., Smith, N. R., Cummins, S., & Clark, C.
Affiliations
  • Queen Mary University of London (GB)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
Corresponding author
Fahy, Amanda E.
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Adolescent Health
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-11
Volume
59
Issue
5
Pages
502-509
ISSN
1054-139X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.006
OpenAlex
W2510956470
Cited by
457
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 25 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 137 · 2017: 9
FWCI
93.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Queen Mary Research Online (Queen Mary University of London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (09/3005/09)
  • Public Health Research Programme (09/3005/09)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
Keywords
cyberbullying, cyber victimization, adolescent mental health, depressive symptoms, social anxiety, psychological well-being, bullying risk factors, longitudinal associations
MeSH terms
Adolescent Health, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Anxiety, Child, Depression, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Quality of Life, Odds Ratio, Crime Victims, Internet, Bullying

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