Summary
BACKGROUND: Cybervictimisation has been linked to poor mental health in young people, but doubts remain about the robustness of this association. We examined mental health outcomes for adolescents who experienced cybervictimisation using a genetically informative longitudinal design to strengthen causal inference by accounting for alternative explanations. METHODS: We used data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative cohort of 2232 British twins born in 1994-95. We included participants who completed interviews assessing cybervictimisation and mulitple offline forms of victimisation since age 12 years, and a range of mental health conditions at age 18 years. Confounders were measured prospectively from ages 5 years to 18 years. Unmeasured c
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