1 2 Bulling as the Leading Cause of Teen Suicide among Adolescents between 14 and 16 Years of Age in Schools in the United States Student's Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name Instructor's Name Submission Date Bulling as the Leading Cause of Teen Suicide among Adolescents between 14 and 16 Years of Age in Schools in the United States Abstract This paper examines bullying as the prevalent cause of teen suicide among adolescents between fourteen and sixteen years of age within schools in America. “Bullying” refers to a dangerous factor associate with suicidal thoughts and trials amongst teenagers. In many schools in the United States, school-age teenagers are subjected to bullying, resulting in suicide. Introduction Suicide is one of the principal reasons for mortality for teenagers aged fourteen to sixteen. Teenage suicide is an awful worldwide public health concern affecting teens (Baiden & Tadeo, 2020; Okafor et al., 2020). The relatively and associates stay emotionally distressed lives following the loss of their young ones. About one in six elementary school children has seriously opted to commit suicide, while one in twelve has tried it (Baiden et al., 2020). Furthermore, suicide tolls among teenagers have been amplifying for the last few years, from six percent in early 2009 to eight percent in late 2011 (Baiden & Tadeo, 2020; Okafor et al., 2020). Besides, evidence reveals a vibrant link between victimization and suicide, as recommended by current bullying-associated suicide mortalities. Hook The grounds behind a teenager's suicide might be challenging. Even though suicide is somehow unusual amongst kids, the level of attempted suicides intensifies significantly during the teenage years (Baiden et al., 2020; Tang et al., 2020). Background Information Within the previous years, headings reporting the sad accounts of a teens’ suicide connected to bullying have become prevalent. The family is left with much pain after losing their loved ones. Even society is affected because they lose someone from their community (Baiden et al., 2020; Campisi et al., 2020). Losing such as young, energetic soul to suicide snatches a blessing from both the community and the family. Problem Statement This research will address bullying as the leading cause of suicide between teenagers aged fourteen to sixteen. If this issue is not addressed, we will keep on losing young ones to this menace. Research Question What could be done to address the risk of suicide prevalent in teens aged between fourteen to sixteen years old in school? Hypothesis The study hypothesizes that increased exposure to bullying deeds in schools would escalate the danger of stress, suicidal thoughts, and attempted murder. Thesis Statement The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between Bullying and Suicide, in adolescents between 14 and 16 years of age, in the school of the United States. Literature Review The Centers for Disease Control ...

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Bulling as the Leading Cause of Teen Suicide among
Adolescents between 14 and 16 Years of Age in Schools in the
United States
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course Name
Instructor's Name
Submission Date
Bulling as the Leading Cause of Teen Suicide among
Adolescents between 14 and 16 Years of Age in Schools in the
United States
Abstract
This paper examines bullying as the prevalent cause of
teen suicide among adolescents between fourteen and sixteen
years of age within schools in America. “Bullying” refers to a
dangerous factor associate with suicidal thoughts and trials
amongst teenagers. In many schools in the United States,
school-age teenagers are subjected to bullying, resulting in
suicide.
Introduction
Suicide is one of the principal reasons for mortality for
teenagers aged fourteen to sixteen. Teenage suicide is an awful
worldwide public health concern affecting teens (Baiden &

2. Tadeo, 2020; Okafor et al., 2020). The relatively and associates
stay emotionally distressed lives following the loss of their
young ones. About one in six elementary school children has
seriously opted to commit suicide, while one in twelve has tried
it (Baiden et al., 2020). Furthermore, suicide tolls among
teenagers have been amplifying for the last few years, from six
percent in early 2009 to eight percent in late 2011 (Baiden &
Tadeo, 2020; Okafor et al., 2020). Besides, evidence reveals a
vibrant link between victimization and suicide, as recommended
by current bullying-associated suicide mortalities.
Hook
The grounds behind a teenager's suicide might be
challenging. Even though suicide is somehow unusual amongst
kids, the level of attempted suicides intensifies significantly
during the teenage years (Baiden et al., 2020; Tang et al.,
2020).
Background Information
Within the previous years, headings reporting the sad
accounts of a teens’ suicide connected to bullying have become
prevalent. The family is left with much pain after losing their
loved ones. Even society is affected because they lose someone
from their community (Baiden et al., 2020; Campisi et al.,
2020). Losing such as young, energetic soul to suicide snatches
a blessing from both the community and the family.
Problem Statement
This research will address bullying as the leading cause of
suicide between teenagers aged fourteen to sixteen. If this issue
is not addressed, we will keep on losing young ones to this
menace.
Research Question
What could be done to address the risk of suicide prevalent
in teens aged between fourteen to sixteen years old in school?
Hypothesis
The study hypothesizes that increased exposure to bullying

3. deeds in schools would escalate the danger of stress, suicidal
thoughts, and attempted murder.
Thesis Statement
The purpose of this paper is to demonstra te the relationship
between Bullying and Suicide, in adolescents between 14 and 16
years of age, in the school of the United States.
Literature Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
confirms that suicide is among the leading root of mortality for
fourteen to sixteen-year-old teens after murder and accidents. In
schools, when either fellow children or adults harass kids, they
might turn to suicide. The danger of suicide grows whenever
teenager scan access weapons at home, and around sixty-percent
of every suicide in America is done with a firearm (Baiden &
Tadeo, 2020).
According to, Campisi et al., (2020) the prevalence of suicidal
ideation representing 397,299 adolescents (51.3% female) was
significantly higher among girls than boys whereas attempts did
not differ by age or sex. Being bullied, or having no close
friends was associated with suicidal ideation among girls 13–15
years and 16–17 years, respectively. Among all boys, being in a
fight and having no close friends was associated with suicidal
ideation with the addition of serious injury for boys 13–15
years. Common to all younger adolescents was an association of
suicide attempt with being bullied and having had a serious
injury. Among young boys, having no close friends was an
additional indicator for suicide attempt. Having no close friends
was associated with suicide attempt in older adolescents with
the addition to being bullied in older girls and serious injury in
older boys.
Suicide is a grave public health concern that affects every age
group. Biological, mental, economic, cultural, and social
aspects trigger suicide. In teenagers within schools in the U.S,

4. these incidents are rampant; thus, causing a stir since it is a
terrible occurrence (Campisi et al., 2020). It separates the
paradigm of visions and pleasures that deserve being the portion
of these teens’ lives. Additionally, it even breeds predicaments
within the state’s economy due to the reduced number of
imminent economically lively youths. According to Okafor et
al., (2020), in late 1999, attempted murder attempts were the
third prominent reason for mortality for U.S. teenagers aged
fourteen to sixteen. From the mid-2008 to-date, suicide keeps
being the third basis of death for these teenagers in schools
within America (Campisi et al., 2020; Tang et al., 2020).
According to, Campisi et al., (2020) the prevalence of suicidal
ideation representing 397,299 adolescents (51.3% female) was
significantly higher among girls than boys whereas attempts did
not differ by age or sex. Being bullied, or having no close
friends was associated with suicidal ideation among girls 13–15
years and 16–17 years, respectively. Among all boys, being in a
fight and having no close friends was associated with suicidal
ideation with the addition of serious injury for boys 13–15
years. Common to all younger adolescents was an association of
suicide attempt with being bullied and having had a serious
injury. Among young boys, having no close friends was an
additional indicator for suicide attempt. Having no close friends
was associated with suicide attempt in older adolescents with
the addition to being bullied in older girls and serious injury in
older boys.
On the other hand, Munoz-Fernandez et al., (2019), conducted a
study, in which they created a program called Dat-e
Adolescence, which is nothing more than a school-based
universal and multi-component prevention program designed for
adolescents aged 12 to 19 years. It comprises seven 1-hour long
sessions that can be implemented during school hours. In
general terms, the program adopts a constructivist and
experiential approach that encourages content learning through
different teaching and learning experiences. It includes
researcher- and peer-led training. Bullying and sexual

5. harassment have been described as a stepping-stone to dating
violence. It has been observed that young people exposed to
peer group violence tend to internalize acceptance of violence
norms and develop a maladjusted perception of the
consequences of violence on the victims, which poses a greater
risk to violent behavior involvement in other relational
contexts, including romantic relationships.
References
Baiden, P., &Tadeo, S. K. (2020). Investigating the association
between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation among
adolescents: evidence from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior
Survey. Child abuse & neglect, 102, 104417.
Campisi, S. C., Carducci, B., Akseer, N., Zasowski, C.,
Szatmari, P., &Bhutta, Z. A. (2020). Suicidal behaviors
among adolescents from 90 countries: a pooled analysis of the
global school-based student health survey. BMC public

6. health, 20(1), 1-11.
Muñoz-Fernández, N., Ortega-Rivera, J., Nocentini, A.,
Menesini, E., & Sánchez-Jiménez, V.
(2019). The Efficacy of the “Dat-e Adolescence”
Prevention Program in the Reduction of Dating Violence
and Bullying. International Journal of Environmental Research
and Public Health, 16(3).
Okafor, C., Jahanfar, S., Inungu, J., & Minelli, M. (2020). The
relationship between bullying, sexual violence and substance
use among adolescents in the United States: Cross- sectional
study. European Journal of Environment and Public
Health, 4(2), em0049.
Tang, J. J., Yu, Y., Wilcox, H. C., Kang, C., Wang, K., Wang,
C.,& Chen, R. (2020). Global risks of suicidal behaviors
and being bullied and their association in adolescents: school -
based health survey in 83 countries. EClinicalMedicine, 19,
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Methods:
For this study, a meta-analysis method was used to synthesize
different results found among several studies. The researcher
accessed the virtual library through the MRU home page. Then,
the researcher accessed the EBESC host databases. Once there,
the researcher selected both MEDLINE Complete and CINAHL
Complete. An advanced search was performed, for which the
following keywords were entered in the Boolean search:
“Bullying”, “in Adolescents”, and “Cause of Suicide in the
schools of the United States.” The search was limited to
references providing full text, peer reviewed, and abstract
available. A limitation was set for research published within the
last five years, from 2016 to 2021. Additionally, researcher

7. consulted only articles published in English. The search
provided access to a total of 185 articles, of which only five (5)
studies were selected based on their relevance with the topic;
the other 180 were discarded.
Results
Bulling is said to be connected to mental health outcomes both
for the victim and the person who’s bulling the other. This
mental health outcomes are associated with suicidal behavior
and ideation. The research topic is prompt on bulling as a
leading cause of suicide in adolescence between 14-16 years in
United States.
Bulling and suicide affecting gender
Undheim (2017) stated that the relationship between
participation in bulling, either as the victim or perpetrator does
not change its outcome to suicide. Whereas girls show a high
suicidal ideation than boys in bulling examples are cyber and
traditional bulling. Heikkila et al (2019), refers girls and boys
who are both victims and perpetrators of bulling show
aggressiveness but research doesn’t tell the difference in this.
Baiden (2017), said that bulling came hand in hand with
depression and suicidal attempt in both boys and girls. Li, Yong
(2018) clarified that racism, violence from home and depression
could be the major causes of bulling.
Affecting age
Albdour (2019), after undertaking a search on cyber bulling he
stated that children in the age of 14-16 who experienced cyber

8. bulling and in school bulling were in a greater risk of going
thorough depression and psychological torchier.
Suicidal effects on victim-perpetrator
Both being a victim and a perpetrator of bulling reported
suicidal ideals or attempts.
Bulling and suicide affecting gender
Affecting age
Effects on victim-perpetrator
Undheim (2017)
Girls report more suicidal ideals or attempts compared to boys
but more boys commit suicide instead
14-16 years
Perpetrators are less affected compared to victims as they report
suicide cases
Heikkila et al. (2019)
Both girls and boys who were victims and perpetrators will
show suicidal attempts
14.5-15 years
Victims report suicidal ideals more than perpetrators
Albdour (2019)
Girls experienced more suicidal attempts after being
traditionally or cyber bullied.
15 years
Bulling affected both victims and perpetrators
Li, Yong (2018)
Boys who show depression and aggressiveness are more prone
to suicidal ideals
14 years
Mostly victims get affected
Baiden (2017)
Both genders show aggressiveness and are all subjects of
bulling may show suicidal attempts.
14-16 years

9. Any subject of bulling goes hand in hand with suicidal attempts
Table1: Bulling as a cause of suicide on adolescence between
14-16 years
References
Hekkila et al. "Relationship between bullying and suicidal
behaviour in youth presenting to the emergency department."
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry 26.2 (2019): 70.
Baiden, Philip, and Savarra K. Tadeo. "Investigating the
association between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation
among adolescents: evidence from the 2017 Youth Risk
Behavior Survey." Child abuse & neglect 102 (2020): 104417.
Li, Yong, and Junrong Shi. "Bullying and suicide in high school
students: Findings from the 2015 California youth risk behavior
survey." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
28.6 (2018): 695-709.
Undheim. "Bullying in schools and its relation with depressive
symptoms, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation in adolescents."
Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry 19.2 (2017).
Albdour, Maha, et al. "The impact of cyberbullying on physical
and psychological health of Arab American adolescents."
Journal of immigrant and minority health 21.4 (2019): 706-715.
Discussion
Analysis and interpretation of data is done after presentation
using tables. According to the table formulated above, it shows
that according to Undheim (2017) girls reported more suicidal
attempt while more boys attempted suicide between the age of
14-16 years and victims of bulling were more affected. Heikkila
et al (2019) wrote that both gender between the age of 14.5-15

10. years who were bullied show suicide attempts and victims were
more affected than perpetrators while Aldour (2019) says girls
at the age of 15 years experienced more suicidal attempts after
being traditionally or cyber bullied and both victims and
perpetrators were affected.
Baiden (2017) said both genders who show aggressiveness and
are subjects bulling show suicidal ideals and this happens to
adolescence at the age of 14-16 years. As stated by Li, Yong
(2018), boys who are under bullying show aggressiveness and
depression and are prone to suicidal attempts at 14 years.
According to the data above, although both genders undergo
bulling, girls are more affected by it compared to boys. Both
boys and girls at the age of 14-16 years who are either cyber
bullied or traditionally bullied report attempted suicides,
suicide ideals, depression and aggressiveness. Perpetrators in
most cases don’t show suicidal attempts but according to the
data they may have suicidal thoughts just as victims do. As the
hypothesis states, increased exposure to bullying deeds in
schools would escalate the dander of stress, suicidal thoughts
and attempted murder, the research results proven so Alavi,
Nazanin (2017).
After posting, the feedback was that bulling should not just be
ignored as it is a stressful ordeal to the children. It even lowers
self esteem thus leading to suicide. Bulling can be reduced by
increasing involvement in communication both between
children, parents and teachers. Therefore, reducing it from
being the major cause of suicide.

11. References
Hekkila et al. "Relationship between bullying and suicidal
behaviour in youth presenting to the emergency department."
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry 26.2 (2019): 70.
Baiden, Philip, and Savarra K. Tadeo. "Investigating the
association between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation
among adolescents: evidence from the 2017 Youth Risk
Behavior Survey." Child abuse & neglect 102 (2020): 104417.
Li, Yong, and Junrong Shi. "Bullying and suicide in high school
students: Findings from the 2015 California youth risk behavior
survey." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
28.6 (2018): 695-709.
Undheim. "Bullying in schools and its relation with depressive
symptoms, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation in adolescents."
Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry 19.2 (2017).
Albdour, Maha, et al. "The impact of cyberbullying on physical
and psychological health of Arab American adolescents."
Journal of immigrant and minority health 21.4 (2019): 706-715.

12. Limitations
Limitations one
The Records employed were EBESC, MEDLINE, and CINAHL.
The research also used Keywords such as Bullying, Suicide
cause. Additionally, the survey used English as the language
(Zaborskis et al., 2018). The publication was within not less
than 5 years. Besides, the research applied was peer-reviewed
which was restricted to references generating entire writing,
peer-reviewed as well as abstract present limited resources.
Limitations two
The Topic for the investigation was IBS Diagnosis. The
Samples employed outside the sources examined if the patient
was ailing from IBS. Moreover, the Five research chosen
centered on the relevance with the subject.
Implications on the results
The investigation offered access to a sum of 185 papers.
Additionally, only five investigations were chosen due to their
relevance with the subject, and the remaining 180 were
destroyed (Baiden & Tadeo, 2020). Furthermore, the other
survey only established qualitative data the patient provided
based on their signs. The outcome confirmed were in minimal
quantity.
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Several studies were conducted to examine several patient
diseases. The first investigation experienced certain limitations.
Laboratory absence made the research challenging since it
aimed at evaluating if the patient had IBS or IBS inadequacy
(Hinduja & Patchin, 2019). The patient underwent some trials to
do away with the perception that the sick individual never had
other conditions. The physician analyzed the patient as having
IBS. Due to the occurrence, the investigator established

13. qualitative data the patient offered because of their signs.
Moreover, the articles investigated employed little samples in
the research. Hence the outcome attained were on a limited
scale.
Additionally, the research approach utilized a meta-analysis
mechanism to synthesize diverse outcomes present among many
investigations. The investigation accessed the simulated library
by the MRU home page. The surveyor chose both MEDLINE as
well as CINAHL complete. Search undertaking utilized the
statements bullying in adolescents in addition to suicide cause
in the United States schools.
The investigation restriction was due to the reference offering
full writing, peer studied, and present abstract. The
investigation was limited to publication within the previous 5
years. In other words, from 2016 to 2021. The surveyor
observed papers written in English. The examination generated
access to 185 papers, whereby only 5 were chosen due to their
relevance with the subject (Koyanagi et al., 2019). The
remaining papers 180 were destroyed.
References
Baiden, P., & Tadeo, S. K. (2020). Investigating the association
between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation among
adolescents: evidence from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior
Survey. Child abuse & neglect, 102, 104417.
Hinduja, S., & Patchin, J. W. (2019). Connecting adolescent
suicide to the severity of bullying and cyberbullying. Journal of
school violence, 18(3), 333-346.
Koyanagi, A., Oh, H., Carvalho, A. F., Smith, L., Haro, J. M.,
Vancampfort, D., ... & DeVylder, J. E. (2019). Bullying
victimization and suicide attempt among adolescents aged 12–
15 years from 48 countries. Journal of the American Academy

14. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(9), 907-918.
Zaborskis, A., Ilionsky, G., Tesler, R., & Heinz, A. (2018). The
association between cyberbullying, school bullying, and
suicidality among adolescents. Crisis.