Citation

Fredrick SS, Demaray MK. J. Sch. Psychol. 2018; 67: 1-15.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, United States. Electronic address: mkdemaray@niu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Society for the Study of School Psychology, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsp.2018.02.001

PMID

29571526

Abstract

The current study investigated the relations among traditional and cyber victimization, depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and gender in a school-based sample of 403 9th grade (13 to 16-year-old) adolescents. Path analyses indicated that both traditional victimization and cyber victimization were associated with suicidal ideation indirectly through depressive symptoms. Although there was little evidence of gender differences in the associations among peer victimization and depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, the relation between depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation was found to be significantly stronger for girls than boys. The current investigation confirms the complexity of the association between peer victimization and suicidal ideation and that depressive symptoms, as well as gender, may play a role in this complex relation. Future research should continue to explore the associations among victimization, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation within a social ecological framework.

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Language: en

Keywords

Adolescents; Cyber victimization; Depression; Suicidal ideation; Traditional victimization