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Childhood bullying involvement predicts low-grade systemic inflammation into adulthood
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Significance: Bullying is a common childhood experience that affects children at all income levels and racial/ethnic groups. Being a bully victim has long-term adverse consequences on physical and mental health and financial functioning, but bullies themselves display few ill effects. Here, we show that victims suffer from greater increases in low-grade systemic inflammation from childhood to young adulthood than are seen in others. In contrast, bullies showed lower increases in inflammation into adulthood compared with those uninvolved in bullying. Elevated systemic low-grade inflammation is a mechanism by which this common childhood social adversity may get under the skin to affect adult health functioning, even many years later.
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“Similarly, exposure to bullying during childhood and adolescence is associated with elevated CRP during early (Copeland et al., 2014) and middle adulthood (Takizawa et al., 2015)”
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- Authors
- Copeland, W. E., Wolke, D., Lereya, S. T., Shanahan, L., Worthman, C., & Costello, E. J.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Department of Psychology and Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom;
- University of Warwick (GB)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Copeland, William E.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-05-12
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 7570-7575
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4040559
- OpenAlex
- W2159691606
- Cited by
- 291
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 41.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DukeSpace (Duke University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- William T. Grant Foundation (MH63671, MH48085, DA/MH11301, MH63970)
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (MH63970, MH48085, MH63671, DA/MH11301)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K003593/1)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-63671, R01MH063970, R01MH048085, DA/MH11301, MH-63970, MH080230, MH63970, MH63671, MH48085, R03MH094605, and MH080230, MH-48085, K23MH080230, R01MH063671)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (MH63671, MH63970, MH48085, DA/MH11301, P30DA023026, R01DA011301, DA023026)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Keywords
- childhood bullying, bullying victimization, bullying perpetration, C-reactive protein, low-grade inflammation, biological embedding, social adversity, dominance, psychosocial adversity, adolescent development, early adulthood, Great Smoky Mountains Study
- MeSH terms
- C-Reactive Protein, Child, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Longitudinal Studies, North Carolina, Prospective Studies, Fluoroimmunoassay, Models, Statistical, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, Bullying
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