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Reply to "Bullying as an ACE"

Although ACEs refer to the 10 experiences in the ACE Study, there is a strong relationship between peer victimization and ACE Score.  Teicher, Samson, Sheu, Polcari, & McGreenery (2010) found equivalent effects between parental verbal and peer verbal abuse on neurobiology. This led to the development of the MACE instrument (Teicher & Parigger, 2015), which builds on ACEs, but does not include the family dysfunction elements. The MACEs are: physical, sexual, verbal and non-verbal emotional abuse; physical and emotional neglect; peer physical and verbal victimization; and witnessing abuse of a sibling and witnessing intimate partner violence. Sansen (2015) and I (forthcoming) have both found a very strong relationship between intrafamilial MACEs and both peer verbal and physical victimization, in other words, child abuse and neglect predicts peer victimization.  I am unaware of research that zeros in on either ACE/MACE and being a perpetrator or ACE/MACE and victim/bully cycles.

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