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Children involved in bullying at elementary school age: their psychiatric symptoms and deviance in adolescence: an epidemilogical sample
- Authors:
- KAMPULAINEN Kirsti, RASANEN Eila
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(12), December 2000, pp.1567-1577.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study investigated psychiatric symptoms and deviance at the age of 15 years among children involved in bullying at the age of 8 years or at the age of 12 years. Furthermore, the relationships between involvement in bullying at the age of 8 years, concurrent psychiatric deviance, and later psychiatric deviance were studied. Questionnaires filled in by the parents, teachers and children themselves were used to reveal psychiatric symptoms and deviance. Concludes that bullying experiences are connected not only to concurrent psychiatric symptoms but also to future psychiatric symptoms., Furthermore, the probability of being deviant in adolescence is increased if the child has been involved in bullying at elementary school age.
Factors predicting the relapse of depression in old age
- Authors:
- KIVELA Sirkka-Liisa, VIRAMO Petteri, PAHKULA Kimmo
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(2), February 2000, pp.112-119.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Studies in mixed-aged populations show differences between the predictors of a relapse and those of a long term course of depression, supporting the hypothesis about similar differences among the aged. The aim of this study was to identify the factors predicting or related to a relapse of depression among the Finnish elderly having recovered from depression during treatment. The logistic regression model showed major depression and psychomotor retardation to be independent predictors. Relapses were not related to stressors in life or psychical illnesses occurring the follow up. Major depressive elderly patients have a high risk for relapses without the occurrence of the stressors or the physical illnesses. Concludes that in clinical practice, major depressive elderly patients should be followed up in order to detect and treat potential relapses as soon as possible.
Sense of coherence and social support - Resources for subjective well-being and health of the aged in Finland
- Authors:
- ELOVAINIO M., KIVIMAKI M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(2), April 2000, pp.128-135.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines whether the psychological and social resources of aged people (over 75 years) in Finland predict their subjective well-being and experienced state of health. Based on previous research on younger people we formed a model where morbidity, experienced quality of social support and sense of coherence together with economic resources are the predictors of both experienced state of health and subjective well-being. The model providing the most parsimonious explanation of the data suggested that a strong sense of coherence and high experienced quality of social relationships are strongly related to subjective well-being. Experienced state of health was associated with morbidity and subjective well-being, but there was no significant relationship between subjective well-being and morbidity.
Bullying at school: an indicator of adolescents at risk for mental disorder
- Authors:
- KALTIALA-HEINO Rittakerttu, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 23(6), December 2000, pp.661-674.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Presents the findings of a Finish study which aimed to evaluate whether involvement in bullying as bully, victim or bully-victim is associated with mental health problems in adolescence. Depressive symptoms, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, excessive drinking, alcohol and eating disorders, were showed. Possible differences in disorder profile according to involvement in bullying in different roles were also examined.
A review of the research literature on serious violent and sexual offenders
- Authors:
- CONNELLY Clare, WILLIAMSON Shanti
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 125p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Aims to provide a summary of current and recent UK and international literature on the sentencing of dangerous offenders and the subsequent management of these offenders, whether in hospital or prison settings, and upon release into the community. The research is divided by country, split up into those who use a community protection approach, those who use a clinical approach, and other jurisdictions. It concludes with an examination of the issue of compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights.