A study jointly carried out by the University of Warwick and published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the effects of being bullied in childhood last long into adulthood.
Key findings include:
Key findings include:
- Serious illness, struggling to hold down a regular job and poor social relationships are some of the outcomes for those exposed to bullying as children
- ‘Bully-victims’ – those who may turn to bullying after being bullied themselves – were at greatest risk for health problems in adulthood and over 6 times more likely to be diagnosed with a serious illness, smoke regularly, or develop a psychiatric disorder compared to those not involved in bullying
- Although there was no real difference in the likelihood of being married or having children between children involved in bullying and those not, of those involved all groups showed signs of having difficulty forming social relationships, particularly when it came to maintaining long term friendships or good ties with parents in adulthood
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