Bulling as the Leading Cause of Teen Suicide among Adolescents between 14 and 16 Years of Age in Schools in the United States

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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

Albdour (2019), after undertaking a search on cyber bulling he stated that children in the age of 14-16 who experienced cyber bulling and in school bulling were in a greater risk of going thorough depression and psychological torchier.

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.

Baiden, Philip, and Savarra K. Tadeo. "Investigating the association between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation among adolescents: evidence from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey." Child abuse & neglect 102 (2020): 104417.

Li, Yong, and Junrong Shi. "Bullying and suicide in high school students: Findings from the 2015 California youth risk behavior survey." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 28.6 (2018): 695-709.

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).

Albdour, Maha, et al. "The impact of cyberbullying on physical and psychological health of Arab American adolescents." Journal of immigrant and minority health 21.4 (2019): 706-715.