Disentangling Environmental and Genetic Influences on Associations Between Childhood Bullying Victimization and Psychotic-Like Experiences.

ABSTRACT: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are common in youth and predict later mental health problems. Bullying victimization is a robust environmental risk factor for psychopathology including PLEs, but whether its association with PLEs reflects shared genetic liability, individual-specific putatively causal effects, or reciprocal processes is unclear. We analyzed seven waves of longitudinal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, examining associations across the sample in addition to leveraging within-family comparisons among twin and sibling pairs who were concordant or discordant for exposure to bullying victimization. Using linear mixed-effects and cross-lagged models, we found that youth reporting bullying victimization were more likely to endorse significantly d

SUBMITTER: Karcher NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12889863 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature