title: Is exposure to domestic violence and violent crime associated with bullying behaviour among underage adolescent psychiatric inpatients?
abstract: We examined the relationship of exposure to domestic violence and violence occurring outside home to bullying behaviour in a sample (508; 40.9% males, 59.1% females) of underage psychiatric inpatient adolescents. Participants were interviewed using K-SADS-PL to assess DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses and to gather information about domestic and other violence and bullying behaviour. Witnessing interparental violence increased the risk of being a victim of bullying up to 2.5-fold among boys. For girls, being a victim of a violent crime was an over 10-fold risk factor for being a bully-victim. Gender differences were seen in witnessing of a violent crime; girls were more likely to be bullies than boys. Further, as regards being a victim of a violent crime outside home and physical abuse by parents at home, girls were significantly more often bully-victims than boys. When interfering and preventing bullying behaviour, it is important to screen adolescents' earlier experiences of violence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mustanoja
authors.forename: Anu-Helmi
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Luukkonen
authors.forename: Helinä
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hakko
authors.forename: Pirkko
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Räsänen
authors.forename: Hannu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Säävälä
authors.forename: Kaisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Riala
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology