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Young people who are bullied in school are more likely to skip school and engage in antisocial behavior than those who are not bullied. Through Agnew's general strain theory (GST), bully victimization is considered an experienced strain, and deviant behavior may be one reaction to such strain. In contrast, skipping school can allow young people who are being bullied at school the chance to avoid victimization and is representative of what Agnew refers to as anticipated strain. The current study assesses whether bully victimization and skipping school due to bully victimization are associated with self-reported delinquency and substance use and whether these effects vary by the demographics of participants (e.g. sex, race, and ethnicity). Using data from the 2022 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, results indicate that only experienced measures of physical bully victimization and cyberbully victimization are associated with a greater variety of delinquency and substance use but verbal abuse was related to lower variety of substance use in the overall sample. While results largely suggest that the effects of strain on these outcomes do not significantly differ between males and females, there is evidence that some of these effects differ between races and ethnicities.
Cardwell et al. (Wed,) studied this question.