Adolescents are being put at risk from the increasing issue of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is an “emerging health problem”, according to the CDC. Many of these digital communications originate off school grounds and/or not during school hours (Billitteri, 2008)
While both traditional bullies/victims and cyber bullies/victims suffered more negative scores on tests for physical and psychological health and academic performance; cyber bully/victims had more negative scores on these measures than traditional bullies/victims did (Kowalski & Limber, 2013).
Cyberbullying is unique because many methods of it have no moderation, as opposed to in person (or traditional) bullying in which an authority figure or otherwise can step in to mediate or prevent the interaction. Many online communications remain for extended periods of time, indefinitely which means the means of bullying or the “bullying” itself does not end like a face-to-face bullying event ends. Further, there can seem like no escape from the bullying as it can be accessed online at any time of the day, as opposed to bullying face-to-face which typically takes place at or around/during school (Kowalski, Giumetti, Schroeder, Lattanner, 2014).
Cyberbullying continues to increase in frequency and severity. Victims of cyberbullying are more likely than students that are not victims of cyberbullying, to bring guns into their school. Futhermore, students as young as eight years old continue to successfully attempt suicide in response to being the target of cyberbullying (Ladika, 2018)
Billitteri, T. J. (2008). Cyberbullying: Are new laws needed to curb online aggression?. Retrieved from https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php? id=cqresrre2008050200&type=hitlist&num=1
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Kowalski, R. M., Giumetti, G. W., Schroeder, A. N., & Lattanner, M. R. (2014). Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth. Psychological Bulletin, 140(4), 1073-1137. http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/10.1037/a0035618
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Kowalski, R. M., Limber, S. P. (2013). Psychological, Physical, and Academic Correlates of Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying, Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 53, Pages S13- S20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.09.018.
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Ladika, S. (2018). Bullying and Cyberbullying: Are schools doing enough to protect victims?. Retrieved from https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php? id=cqresrre2018020200&type=hitlist&num=0
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