Anxious Bullies: Parent Distress and Youth Anxiety Interact to Predict Bullying Perpetration.

Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1275332 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-3327 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0009398X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 1999- : New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Original Publication: New York, Behavioral Publications

Bullying*/psychology ; Parents*/psychology ; Anxiety*/psychology; Humans ; Male ; Female ; Adolescent ; Child ; Psychological Distress ; Stress, Psychological/psychology

Early studies conceptualized the "anxious bully" as different from typical bullies due to their anxiety and home problems. Yet, empirical findings are mixed, and no study has reported associations between youth bullying perpetration, youth anxiety, and parent distress in a clinically anxious sample. We assessed 220 youths' anxiety symptom severity, frequency of the bullying perpetration in the past month, and parent levels of distress. Fifty percent of youths endorsed at least one perpetration act and 17% endorsed six or more. Youth anxiety, but not parent distress, was significantly associated with perpetration. We also found a significant interaction such that youth anxiety was positively associated with bullying perpetration when parent distress was high, but not low. Findings fill a glaring knowledge gap regarding this overlooked group of youth, anxious bullies, and provide novel insights into the interplay between youth distress and parent distress in predicting bullying perpetration.
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Keywords: Anxiety disorders; Anxious bully; Parents; Perpetration; Youth

Date Created: 20221012 Date Completed: 20240430 Latest Revision: 20240502

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PMC10090230

10.1007/s10578-022-01443-3

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