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Bullying and other forms of aggression could seriously affect a person. A new study found that people who suffered bullying as adolescents or young adults tend to have violent thoughts or fantasies of hurting or killing someone.
Aggressive Behavior, showed that significant numbers of people who experienced bullying fantasize about inflicting harm.
The researchers from the University of Cambridge tracked the self-reported thoughts and experiences of 1,465 adolescents from schools across Zurich, Switzerland, at ages 15, 17, and 20.
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Violent Thoughts Worse Among Bullying Victims
The researchers recorded whether the participants had violent thoughts in the past 30 days or whether they have experienced or what types of bullying and aggression they experienced over the past year. In the study, bullying is defined as "interpersonal, intentionally harm-doing."