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Table 4 Score of the Youth Self Report by experiences of being a bully/victim (adolescent boys)

From: Relationship between the experience of being a bully/victim and mental health in preadolescence and adolescence: a cross-sectional study

Scale

Neither, n = 146

Victim, n = 30

Bully, n = 23

Bully + Victim, n = 35

F value

p value

Post hoc (Tukey)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Withdrawn

1.98

2.206

3.95

3.422

2.57

2.537

2.80

1.997

6.538

.0003**

V > N

Somatic complaints

1.68

2.972

2.20

2.491

3.18

3.822

2.27

2.339

1.972

.1192

Not significant

Anxious/depressed

4.67

4.757

9.32

7.161

6.34

5.916

6.62

4.479

6.815

.0002**

V > N

Social problems

2.75

2.252

5.59

2.921

3.13

2.096

5.06

2.807

15.998

.0000***

V, B/V > N; V > B

Thought problems

1.93

2.292

2.27

2.363

2.39

2.911

3.03

2.695

2.021

.1119

Not significant

Attention problems

4.80

3.110

7.37

2.977

6.96

2.529

7.29

2.442

12.146

.0000***

V, B/V, B > N

Delinquent behavior

1.72

2.110

2.13

1.961

3.05

2.174

2.43

1.481

3.160

.0255

Not significant

Aggressive behavior

5.68

4.296

7.30

5.691

9.97

5.251

9.80

5.389

10.626

.0000***

B, B/V > N

Internalizing scale

8.19

8.637

14.90

11.013

11.87

11.053

11.51

6.298

4.711

.0034*

V > N

Externalizing scale

7.40

5.807

9.44

7.157

13.03

6.459

12.23

6.197

8.764

.0000***

B/V > N

  1. Multiple imputation was used to impute missing values. One-way ANOVAs were performed
  2. N, Neither; B, Bully; V, Victim; B/V, Bully + Victim
  3. * p < .01, ** p < .001, *** p < .0001
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Annals of General Psychiatry

ISSN: 1744-859X