Bullied Children and Psychosomatic Problems: A Meta-analysis

A previous meta-analysis showed that being bullied during childhood is related to psychosomatic problems, but many other studies have been published since then, including some longitudinal studies. We performed a new meta-analysis to quantify the association between peer victimization and psychosomatic complaints in the school-aged population.We searched online databases up to April 2012, and bibliographies of retrieved studies and of narrative...