Developmental Trajectories of Psychological Adaptation in Bullied Children

This paper examines the developmental trajectories of psychological adaptation between bullied children by using the variables such as depression, anxiety, and somatization. We detected and exemplified these trajectories using multivariate statistical analysis and assesses the impacts of psychological adaptability and gender as significant elements. This work makes use of past three years of data collected from primary and secondary school students using Latent Class Growth Analysis (LCGA). The sample size of 549 bullied children were identified based on the Olweus Bully Questionnaire. Experimental results shown that there are multiple distinct trajectories for depression, anxiety, and somatization among the bullied children. Adaptability and gender influence these outcomes with particular patterns emerging for each psychological variable. These results show the difficulty of psychological adaptation to bullying and the essentiality of specific support that addresses gender and adaptability to effectively care bullied children.