TY - JOUR
T1 - THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN GROUP IDENTITY, SUICIDALITY, AND BULLYING IN MIDWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH
AU - Atunah-Jay, Sarah J.
AU - Basappa, Susanna N.
AU - Fischer, Kristin
AU - Taylor-Desir, Monica
AU - Phelan, Sean M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (www.coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/caianh)
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Bullying peaks in middle school and is a risk factor for negative mental health outcomes, including suicidality. Suicide rates are higher in nonmetropolitan/rural areas and for American Indian/Alaska Natives compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Stigma-related bullying, a type of interpersonal discrimination, is increasingly considered an important driver of peer victimization. This study centers on the group identity characteristics of race/ethnicity, weight status, and sex to explore how school-based and electronic-bullying victimization mediate suicidality amongst a cohort of middle school students in North Dakota. Bivariate, multivariate, and structural equation modeling were performed using data from the 2015 North Dakota Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Minoritized race/ethnicity, very overweight, and female students all experienced statistically higher suicidality than comparison groups, mediated in some instances by bullying. Group identity, stigma, and discrimination may influence suicidality in North Dakota middle school youth. More information is needed on stigma and discrimination, including intersections of identity, as drivers of bullying and suicidality in minoritized youth in nonmetropolitan/rural areas.
AB - Bullying peaks in middle school and is a risk factor for negative mental health outcomes, including suicidality. Suicide rates are higher in nonmetropolitan/rural areas and for American Indian/Alaska Natives compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Stigma-related bullying, a type of interpersonal discrimination, is increasingly considered an important driver of peer victimization. This study centers on the group identity characteristics of race/ethnicity, weight status, and sex to explore how school-based and electronic-bullying victimization mediate suicidality amongst a cohort of middle school students in North Dakota. Bivariate, multivariate, and structural equation modeling were performed using data from the 2015 North Dakota Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Minoritized race/ethnicity, very overweight, and female students all experienced statistically higher suicidality than comparison groups, mediated in some instances by bullying. Group identity, stigma, and discrimination may influence suicidality in North Dakota middle school youth. More information is needed on stigma and discrimination, including intersections of identity, as drivers of bullying and suicidality in minoritized youth in nonmetropolitan/rural areas.
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U2 - 10.5820/aian.2903.2022.18
DO - 10.5820/aian.2903.2022.18
M3 - Article
C2 - 36178746
AN - SCOPUS:85139535774
SN - 0893-5394
VL - 29
SP - 18
EP - 42
JO - American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
JF - American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
IS - 3
ER -