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Table 5 Score of the Youth Self Report by experiences of being a bully/victim (adolescent girls)

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

Scale

Neither, n = 154

Victim, n = 38

Bully, n = 9

Bully + Victim, n = 41

F value

p value

Post hoc (Tukey)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Withdrawn

2.22

2.151

4.21

2.951

3.11

2.147

3.67

2.654

9.370

.0000***

V, B/V > N

Somatic complaints

2.10

2.627

4.08

2.794

3.82

3.777

4.14

3.670

10.501

.0000***

B/V, V > N

Anxious/depressed

5.62

4.917

10.86

6.561

8.22

5.544

10.45

6.679

14.725

.0000***

V, B/V > N

Social problems

3.78

2.519

5.76

2.476

4.85

2.425

5.32

2.631

8.792

.0000***

V, B/V > N

Thought problems

1.71

2.021

2.48

2.137

3.11

2.522

3.93

3.297

10.311

.0000***

V/B > N

Attention problems

6.13

3.176

7.76

2.972

7.96

3.411

8.10

3.897

5.640

.0001**

B/V > N

Delinquent behavior

1.34

1.559

1.95

1.707

3.56

2.404

3.71

2.452

20.704

.0000***

B/V, B > N; B/V > V

Aggressive behavior

6.19

4.660

8.93

5.037

11.80

5.982

12.39

6.062

17.832

.0000***

B/V > N

Internalizing scale

9.77

7.902

18.78

10.253

14.81

9.103

17.72

10.777

15.827

.0000***

V, B/V > N

Externalizing scale

7.54

5.794

10.88

5.931

15.36

7.506

16.10

7.599

21.477

.0000***

B/V > V, N

  1. Multiple imputation was used to impute missing values. One-way ANOVAs were performed. Comparisons performed using the Turkey’s test
  2. N, Neither; B, Bully; V, Victim; B/V, Bully + Victim
  3. p < .01, ** p < .001, *** p < .0001