The psychological effects of being bullied don't necessarily stop when the bullying does. That's the conclusion of a newly released study published in the journal Pediatrics.
"Students who expressed more frequent peer victimization in fifth grade were more likely to have greater symptoms of depression in seventh grade, and a greater likelihood of using alcohol, marijuana, or tobacco in 10th grade," reports University of Delaware psychologist Valerie Earnshaw, the study's lead author. She and her colleagues examined data on 4,297 students from six states, who were tracked from fifth through 10th grades.
[For more of this story, written by Tom Jacobs, go to https://psmag.com/news/the-las...-effects-of-bullying]
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