Bully/cyberbully victimization, not perpetration, predict depression trajectories identified across adolescence and emerging adulthood, according to a recent study, and these findings can assist school personnel in identifying students’ depression trajectories. Researchers examined data from a sample of 1,042 high school students (mean age, 15.09 years; 56% female; Hispanic, 31.4%, white, 29.4%, and African American, 27.9%.) over a 5-year period. They found:

• 4 depressive symptoms trajectories were identified: a mild trajectory, an increasing trajectory, an elevated trajectory, and a decreasing trajectory.

• Results indicated that bully victimization and cyberbully victimization differentially predicted depressive symptoms trajectories across adolescence, though bully and cyberbully perpetration did not.