Teenaged girls are bullied more often than boys, and are more likely to consider or attempt suicide, a study has found.
Researchers from Rutgers University in the US conducted analyses of the data from a US survey from 2011-2015.
"Bullying is significantly associated with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, suicide planning, and suicide attempts," said Nancy Pontes, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden.
"We wanted to look at this link between bullying victimisation, depressive symptoms, and suicidality by gender," Pontes said in a statement.
Pontes said that, in general, girls are more often bullied than boys, and girls are also more likely to consider, plan, or attempt suicide compared with boys, regardless of being bullied or not -- although boys are more likely to die by suicide.
In this study, researchers looked at significant associations and not direct causal links.
Using two methods of statistical analysis, the study, published in the journal Nursing Research, shows the probability of a link between bullying and depressive symptoms and suicide risk
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