Bullied youth: suicide attempts, planning, ideation, and pre-ideation

ABSTRACT

This paper uses student data from the 2016 Caring Communities Youth Survey (CCYS) to examine four victim effects of being bullied. Victim factors examined are suicide pre-ideation ideation, planning, attempts. All four measures of suicidal thoughts and behaviors were positively related to being bullied and were significant.

KEYWORDS:

• bully behavior
• suicide
• pre-suicide behavior
• delinquency

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Craig J. Forsyth

CRAIG J. FORSYTH is Professor of Sociology, a Picard Fellow, and holds the Jack and Gladys Theall/BORSF Professorship in Liberal Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of over 300 journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of The American Merchant Seaman: Struggle and Stigma (Taylor & Francis, 1989); coauthor (with Anthony Margavio) of Caught in the Net: The Conflict Between Shrimpers and Conservationists (Texas A&M Press, 1996); and coauthor (with Heith Copes) of the Encyclopedia of Social Deviance (Sage, 2014). His principal research interests are in the areas of deviance, crime, and delinquency. He received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He received both his BA and MA at the University of New Orleans.

Raymond W. Biggar

RAYMOND W. BIGGAR, Jr., Ph.D.is a Senior Research Scientist the Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has eight years of experience working in evaluative research and project management in the areas of school climate, mental health and juvenile justice. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the department of counselor education.

Jing Chen

JING CHEN is a research associate working at Picard center for child development and lifelong learning. She is currently working toward a PhD in computer science at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research interests include data mining and visualization.