Childhood bullying victimization, emotion regulation, rumination, distress tolerance, and depressive symptoms: A cross-national examination among young adults in seven countries.

Autor: Labella MH; Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA., Klein ND; Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA., Yeboah G; Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA., Bailey C; Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA., Doane AN; Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA., Kaminer D; Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Bravo AJ; Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Aggressive behavior [Aggress Behav] 2024 Jan; Vol. 50 (1), pp. e22111. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 08.
DOI: 10.1002/ab.22111
Abstrakt: Existing research suggests a robust association between childhood bullying victimization and depressive symptoms in adulthood, but less is known about potential mediators of this link. Furthermore, there is limited cross-national research evaluating similarities and differences in bullying victimization and its associations with mental health. The current study addressed gaps in the literature by evaluating cognitive and affective responses to stress (i.e., emotion regulation, rumination, and distress tolerance) as potential mediators of the link between recalled bullying victimization and current depressive symptoms among 5909 (70.6% female) college students from seven countries. Results revealed specific indirect associations of bullying victimization through distress tolerance and three out of four facets of rumination, as well as a persistent direct association of childhood bullying on adulthood depression. Emotion regulation strategies were not significantly associated with bullying victimization and did not mediate its association with depressive symptoms. Constrained multigroup models indicated that results were invariant across country and gender. Findings provide evidence of statistical mediation in a cross-sectional sample and await replication in prospective studies. Rumination and distress tolerance may be promising targets for resilience-promoting interventions among children experiencing peer victimization. Ongoing research is needed to clarify cross-national patterns in childhood bullying, identify additional mediators accounting for the remaining direct association, and evaluate emotion regulation as a potential moderator of associations between bullying victimization and adult mental health.
(© 2023 The Authors. Aggressive Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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