Wednesday 28 August 2013

Childhood bullying 'casts shadow' over adult life

Childhood bullying 'casts shadow' over adult life


“Bullying is bad for your health,” the Daily Mail reports. The story comes from research which found that victims of childhood bullying had a higher risk of poor health, poverty and problems with social relationships in adulthood.
The study, which followed more than 1,400 participants from childhood to young adulthood, looked at three groups involved in bullying:

  • victims only – who reported being bullied but never bullying others
  • bullies only – who bullied, but had never been bullied themselves
  • bully-victims – who had been victims of bullying and also bullied others

They found that “bully-victims” .......

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