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The Role of Empathy in Alcohol Use of Bullying Perpetrators and Victims: Lower Personal Empathic Distress Makes Male Perpetrators of Bullying More Vulnerable to Alcohol Use

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  • Maren Prignitz

    (Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany)

  • Tobias Banaschewski

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany)

  • Arun L. W. Bokde

    (Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland)

  • Sylvane Desrivières

    (Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, UK)

  • Antoine Grigis

    (NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

  • Hugh Garavan

    (Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA)

  • Penny Gowland

    (Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2QL, UK)

  • Andreas Heinz

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany)

  • Jean-Luc Martinot

    (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U 1299 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Centre Borelli, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

  • Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot

    (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U 1299 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Centre Borelli, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, AP-HP, Sorbonne Université, 75651 Paris, France)

  • Eric Artiges

    (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U 1299 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Centre Borelli, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    Psychiatry Department, EPS Barthélémy Durand, 91150 Etampes, France)

  • Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos

    (NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

  • Luise Poustka

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany)

  • Sarah Hohmann

    (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany)

  • Juliane H. Fröhner

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany)

  • Lauren Robinson

    (Department of Psychological Medicine, Section for Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, UK)

  • Michael N. Smolka

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany)

  • Henrik Walter

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany)

  • Jeanne M. Winterer

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany
    Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

  • Robert Whelan

    (School of Psychology and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland)

  • Gunter Schumann

    (Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
    Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-Inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)

  • Frauke Nees

    (Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein, Kiel University, 24105 Kiel, Germany
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Herta Flor

    (Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • on behalf of the IMAGEN Consortium

    (Membership of IMAGEN Consortium is provided in Acknowledgments.)

Abstract

Bullying often results in negative coping in victims, including an increased consumption of alcohol. Recently, however, an increase in alcohol use has also been reported among perpetrators of bullying. The factors triggering this pattern are still unclear. We investigated the role of empathy in the interaction between bullying and alcohol use in an adolescent sample (IMAGEN) at age 13.97 (±0.53) years (baseline (BL), N = 2165, 50.9% female) and age 16.51 (±0.61) years (follow-up 1 (FU1), N = 1185, 54.9% female). General empathic distress served as a significant moderator of alcohol use in perpetrators ( F 9, 493 = 17.978, p < 0.01), which was specific for males and FU1. Male perpetrators, who are generally less sensitive to distress, might thus be more vulnerable to alcohol abuse.

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  • Maren Prignitz & Tobias Banaschewski & Arun L. W. Bokde & Sylvane Desrivières & Antoine Grigis & Hugh Garavan & Penny Gowland & Andreas Heinz & Jean-Luc Martinot & Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot & Eric, 2023. "The Role of Empathy in Alcohol Use of Bullying Perpetrators and Victims: Lower Personal Empathic Distress Makes Male Perpetrators of Bullying More Vulnerable to Alcohol Use," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(13), pages 1-18, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:13:p:6286-:d:1185985
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    1. Mariana Lopes de Sousa & Maria Manuela Peixoto & Sara Figueiredo Cruz, 2021. "The Association between Externalizing and Internalizing Problems with Bullying Engagement in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Skills," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-14, October.
    2. Matteo Angelo Fabris & Claudio Longobardi & Rosalba Morese & Davide Marengo, 2022. "Exploring Multivariate Profiles of Psychological Distress and Empathy in Early Adolescent Victims, Bullies, and Bystanders Involved in Cyberbullying Episodes," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1, August.
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