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This annotated bibliography includes credible sources that evaluate the impacts of childhood bullying on various aspects of life, such as becoming a teenage mother, eating disorder symptoms, social anxiety, and future offending. The articles were obtained from credible sources and have been peer-reviewed.

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Lehti, V., Sourander, A., Klomek, A., Niemelä, S., Sillanmäki, L., Piha, J., … Almqvist, F.
(2011). Childhood bullying as a predictor for becoming a teenage mother in
Finland. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 20(1), 49–55.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-010-0147-z
The credibility of the article; this article is credible and relevant to the study since it
examines the impacts of bullying to the teenage girls at the age of 8 and the eventual state of
becoming mothers at the age of 20. The article is a journal which has been peer reviewed and
obtained from a credible search engine, EBSCOhost.
Summary of the article; this article reviews how bullying determines the character and
behavior of mothers at the age of twenty who underwent bullying at the age of 8. The study was
done in Finland with the Finnish girls at a baseline of about 1989. The sample population for the
study included 2867 Finnish girls with the data being collected from the registry of births in
Finland from 1989 to 2001. The information which included the outcome, as well as exposure,
was found for about 2507 girls. The findings of the study revealed that the victims and the bullies
had enhanced the risk of mothers who are not dependent of the risk factors coming from the
familial lines. Thus, there is a clear projecting link between a bullied child being a teenage
mother at the tender age.
Evaluation; the strength of this study is evaluating the behavior and characters of mothers
who endured bullying at the tender age. The weakness of the study is that it did not employ a
primary collection of data instead it used secondary data collection which does not take into
account the real experiences of the bullied mothers.

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Reflection of the article; the article is useful to my study because it evaluates and
examines the impact of bullying on the adolescent mothers. It is particularly useful to my study
since it focusses on the mothers who were bullied in their childhood. Few research studies have
focused on this area.
Copeland, W. E., Bulik, C. M., Zucker, N., Wolke, D., Lereya, S. T., & Costello, E. J. (2015).
Does Childhood Bullying Predict Eating Disorder Symptoms? A Prospective,
Longitudinal Analysis. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 48(8), 1141–1149.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22459
The credibility of the article; this article is credible for my study since it evaluates
childhood bullying effects on the digestive system. The journal has been reviewed and is from
EBSCOhost search engine.
Summary of the study; the major objective of the study is to evaluate bullying impacts
on the eating disorder symptoms on children. The method of data collection was through
interviews. The sample population was about 1420 girls who were aged 9 and 25 from the Great
Smoky Mountains. The research used interviews to evaluate the connection of bullying as well
as bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa symptoms and the linked attributes. The study revealed
that the involvement of bullying requires the victim and the bully. The result of the of the study
showed that victims of bullying are at great risk of suffering from bulimia nervosa and anorexia
nervosa symptoms and the associated attributes. The linked features persisted before eating
status of an eating disorder and the preexisting family adversities as well as psychiatric status.
Evaluation of the article; the strength of the study is in the results carried out by the
study. Weaknesses of the article are few and negligible.

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Reflection of the article; the article is useful for my study since it evaluates the
psychological and health impacts of childhood bullying. It is useful since it critically evaluates
specific health impacts like eating disorder linked to bullying.
Boulton, M. J. (2013). Associations between adults’ recalled childhood bullying victimization,
current social anxiety, coping, and self-blame: evidence for moderation and indirect
effects. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 26(3), 270–292.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2012.662499
The credibility of the article; this article is credible since it has been peer reviewed and is
from one of the credible sources, EBSCOhost.
Summary of the article; the article states that prior empirical studies have established that
bullying victimization is rife during the early stages of children and usually have negative
impacts on their lives. The article reports that bullying victimization may lead to social anxiety
as they develop. The article aims to, thus, evaluate the relationship between adult recall as the
childhood victimization subtypes as well as their present social anxiety. The collection of data
was through a survey in which the sample population was the students aged 23 years above —
the sample size of 582 drawn from two universities in the United Kingdom. The result of the
study revealed that the four subtypes of bullying victimization among the students predicted
society anxiety. Hypnotized moderation evidence was recorded as well as the indirect impacts.
The indirect impacts were obtained differed from the four subtypes of bullying victimization, yet
not with sex variations.
Evaluation of the article; the strength of the study is that it reviews various literature
concerning bullying victimization as well as its trend. The author of the article then conducts a

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study using the survey as the research design. This is important in the collection of data as well
as integrating the results with the various literature. The weakness of the study is that the sample
population were not from different universities in the United Kingdom.
Reflection; the article is useful for my topic as it relates to the main topic that I am to
research. The article is crucial to my study as it critically reviews the trend in bullying
victimization, a one key area which researchers have not dwelt in.
Jiang, D., Walsh, M., & Augimeri, L. K. (2011). The linkage between childhood bullying
behavior and future offending. Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health, 21(2), 128–135.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.803
The credibility of the article; this is a journal which has been peer reviewed and has been
obtained from a credible search engine, EBSCOhost.
Summary of the article; the main objective of the study in this article evaluates the
relationship between bullying behavior during the early stages of childhood development and
any following association with the criminal and judicial justice system. The participant of the
study were from Canada and were drawn from an evidence-based program known as STOP
NOW AND PLAN (SNAP) with the sample size of about 379 girls and 570 boys between 2001
and early 2009. To get the data of the sample population, the authors got a court order to access
the full information concerning the records of the sample population. The study applied the child
behavior checklist as well as the early evaluation risk to examine and evaluate the degree of risks
as well as the behavior of bullying. The outcome features entailed age in which the child first had
contact and frequency with which to the judicial and criminal justice system. Regressions of cox
and logistics analysis were greater in cases in which the incidences of bullying were relatively

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high — the authors in the study state that criminal offense hazard for bullies is about 2.0 times
higher as compared to those of non-bullies. The outcome is normally true even if there is an
adjustment in gender, gender, and other identified risk factors. The study concluded that the
convictions in the criminal fields are twice higher for bullies as compared to the nonbullies until
the 18th birthday. The authors concluded by verifying that EARLS are effective in distinguishing
risks linked to bullying.
Evaluation of the study; the strength of the study is that the investigation was carried out
both in primary and secondary nature. The integration of the primary and secondary data
collection ensured that the results were credible. The weakness of the study is nearly
insignificant.
Reflection; the article is useful to my study since it will ensure that I get the impacts of
bullying on the criminal activities of individuals. The article is crucial in evaluating the criminal
behavior of a person and bullying. This is important to my study in the linking human behavior
and bullying.