Bulling is said to be connected to mental health outcomes both for the victim and the person who’s bulling the other. This mental health outcomes are associated with suicidal behavior and ideation. The research topic is prompt on bulling as a leading cause of suicide in adolescence between 14-16 years in United States.
Bulling and suicide affecting gender
Undheim (2017) stated that the relationship between participation in bulling, either as the victim or perpetrator does not change its outcome to suicide. Whereas girls show a high suicidal ideation than boys in bulling examples are cyber and traditional bulling. Heikkila et al. (2019), refers girls and boys who are both victims and perpetrators of bulling show aggressiveness but research doesn’t tell the difference in this Baiden (2017). Wal (2017), said that bulling came hand in hand with depression and suicidal attempt in both boys and girls. Li, Yong (2018) clarified that racism, violence from home and depression could be the major causes of bulling.
Affecting age
Suicidal effects on victim-perpetrator
Both being a victim and a perpetrator of bulling reported suicidal ideals or attempts.
Bulling as a cause of suicide on adolescence between 14-16 years
| Bulling and suicide affecting gender | Affecting age | Effects on victim-perpetrator | |
| Undheim (2017) | Girls report more suicidal ideals or attempts compared to boys but more boys commit suicide instead | 14-16 years | Perpetrators are less affected compared to victims as they report suicide cases |
| Heikkila et al. (2019) | Both girls and boys who were victims and perpetrators will show suicidal attempts | 14.5-15 years | Victims report suicidal ideals more than perpetrators |
| Albdour (2019) | Girls experienced more suicidal attempts after being traditionally or cyber bullied. | 15 years | Bulling affected both victims and perpetrators |
| Li, Yong (2018) | Boys who show depression and aggressiveness are more prone to suicidal ideals | 14 years | Mostly victims get affected |
| Baiden (2017) | Both genders show aggressiveness and are all subjects of bulling may show suicidal attempts. | 14-16 years | Any subject of bulling goes hand in hand with suicidal attempts |
References
Alavi, Nazanin, et al. “Relationship between bullying and suicidal behaviour in youth presenting to the emergency department.” Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 26.2 (2017): 70.
TURAL HESAPÇIOĞLU, Selma, Habibe YEŞİLOVA MERALER, and Filiz Ercan. “Bullying in schools and its relation with depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation in adolescents.” Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry/Anadolu Psikiyatri Dergisi 19.2 (2018).
1. Formulate the Discussion section of your selected topic. In this section, you need to analyze and interpret the Results. THen, go back to your initially stated Hypothesis(es) to compare and contrast with the final Results.
2. Post it.
3. Then, read the posts submitted by two other classmates and provide meaningful feedback for improvement.
Discussion
a. look at Results & interpret them
b. Review Problem Statement & Hypothesis.
You must use the same bibliographic sources, which was used in THE RESULTS.
Problem Statement
This research will address bullying as the leading cause of suicide between teenagers aged fourteen to sixteen. If this issue is not addressed, we will keep on losing young ones to this menace.
Hypothesis
The study hypothesizes that increased exposure to bullying deeds in schools would escalate the danger of stress, suicidal thoughts, and attempted murder.