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Effects of sexual orientation-based bullying on feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students

2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 97; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jped.2020.03.005

1678-4782

Rafael Tavares Jomar, Vitor Augusto de Oliveira Fonseca, Dandara de Oliveira Ramos,

Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

To investigate the extent to which sexual orientation-based bullying relates to self-reported feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students.This is a cross-sectional study using data from the 2015 PeNSE (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar), a survey designed to monitor the health of children and adolescents enrolled in the ninth grade in public and private Brazilian schools. Multiple linear regressions stratified by sex were used on a sample of 101,646 students, considering as reference students who had not experienced bullying, as well as students who had experienced other causes of bullying; a significance level of p<0.05 was accepted.When the reference group was composed of students who had not experienced bullying, the associations between sexual orientation-based bullying and feelings of loneliness and between sexual orientation-based bullying and sleeping difficulty were positive (p<0.05) for both male and female students, with magnitudes about twice as large as those found among those who reported having experienced other cause s of bullying. However, when the reference group was composed of students who had experienced other causes of bullying, only the association between sexual orientation-based bullying and feelings of loneliness was positive (p<0.05) for both male and female students.This study highlights that sexual orientation-based bullying is a predictor of feelings of loneliness.