Resilience reduces bullying-related anxiety and depression

Resilience reduces bullying-related anxiety and depression

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Bullying-related anxiety and depression

Bullied youth are at risk for psychopathology, yet resistance is protective. Journal of Affective Disorders published these findings. This study analyzed cross-sectional data from the Texas Youth Aware of Mental Health program.

Students (N=2155) from North Texas middle and high schools self-reported bullying and completed the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ49), QIDS-A, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screening (GAD-7). 83.5 percent of the pupils had been bullied, 64.6% were girls, and 42.2% were white. QIDS-A: 8.0 (SD: 4.8), GAD-7: 6.2 (SD: 5.1), ARQ49: 171.4 (SD, 28.2).

Bullied people had greater sadness and anxiety ratings and poorer ARQ49 scores (all P.0001).

Bullying was negatively correlated with ARQ49 (r, -0.24; P.0001) scores and positively correlated with depression and anxiety. Anxiety and depression are linked (0.74; P.0001).

Resilience was linked to depression (b, -0.23; P.0001). Resilience partially mitigated bullying’s effects on depression by 64% (P.0001).

Resilience is correlated with anxiety (b, -0.58; P.0001). Resilience mediated 58% of the combined effect of anxiety and bullying (P.0001).

Boys’ resilience mediated 63% of the total effect on depression and 50% on anxiety. Girls’ resilience reduced to despair and anxiety by 62% and 60%, respectively.

This study’s cross-sectional design makes effect direction unclear.

Overall, this study suggests that resilience is a protective trait that modulates the negative mental health effects (depression and anxiety) connected to bullying.