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Bullying badly affects kids' mental health, study finds

NZ Herald | February 08, 2008

A study provides strong evidence that being bullied can cause children to develop depression and anxiety. Among identical twin pairs in which one experienced bullying between the ages of 7 and 9 and the other did not, the bullied twin was significantly more likely to have symptoms of internalising problems at age 10, Dr Louise Arsenault of King's College, London, and her colleagues found.

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