Cyberbullying: An Unceasing Threat in Today's Digitalized World

Waller, Andrew P.; Lokhande, Akshay; Ekambaram, V.; Deshpande, Swapna N.; Ostermeyer, Britta

doi:10.3928/00485713-20180821-01

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“…Cyberbullying is a new field of research; it is considered a public health issue closely related to youth' behaviour, mental health, and development (Zhu et al, 2021). Cyberbullying may lead to adverse effects, such as isolation, sleeping disorders, anxiety, depression, and even suicide (Waller et al, 2018). Similares insights were found in Hong Kong by Wong and colleagues (2014).…”

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Youth Cyberbullying – Understanding Contextual Paths to Prevention and Resilience

2023

Education and New Developments 2023 – Volume 2

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The purpose of this project is to explore cyberbullying processes in youths from 12 to 24 years old in relation to their surrounding environmental systems or assemblages. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of cyberbullying processes among young people in the chinese society, and its mental health, well-being, and psychosocial impacts (e.g., anxiety, depression, suicidality, and aggression). Youths are located within specific socio-ecological contexts and, therefore, are affected by their surrounding environmental systems. Accordingly, young people's interactions with their online environment, associated online risks, and experience of harm are shaped by a complex interplay between them and their wider social environment (Görzig & Machakova, 2015). Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological framework considers the individual as the locus of analysis within a larger socio-ecological setting composed of different levels. We apply that framework to cyberbullying by considering different levels of the socio-ecological system, namely the: (1) micro and meso systems, such as family, school, peers, as proximal contexts which directly influence the situational context of cyberbullying processes; (2) exosystem, which involves the process external to the immediate environmental setting, such as the community, and mass-media or digital technology; and (3) macrosystem, nested within broader contexts, such as institutional policies, support frameworks, and online culture. To apply a socio-ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner, 1979(Bronfenbrenner, , 2005, we used a quantitative approach, collecting data from youth, but also from key-stakeholders involved in the larger context. We adopt the quantitative approach by using the self-response survey data from young people. A total of 327 research participants (207 college students and 120 middle school students) in this study. The finding showed that youth involved in the exerpeience of cymberbullying victimization is assoicated with cyberbullying perpetation behaviors. Implications for practice and policy are discussed.

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Youth Cyberbullying – Understanding Contextual Paths to Prevention and Resilience

2023

Education and New Developments 2023 – Volume 2

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“…Finally, our results demonstrate that following CSDS, social interaction with a conspecific is a highly variable response that may be associated with individual differences in generalization of fear. Collectively, our results indicate that CSDS in 129Sv/Ev mice may be useful for studying the acquisition and retrieval of fear memories involving a social cue, a topic that is particularly relevant given the high rate of in-person and cyberbullying experienced by children and adults [13].…”

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Chronic Social Defeat Stress Gives Rise to Social Avoidance Through Fear Learning

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Aubry,

Hanif

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Chronic social defeat stress (CSDS), a widely used rodent model of stress, reliably leads to decreased social interaction in stress susceptible animals. Here, we investigate a role for fear learning in this response using 129Sv/Ev mice, a strain that is more vulnerable to CSDS than the commonly used C57BL/6 strain. We first demonstrate that defeated 129Sv/Ev mice avoid a CD-1 mouse, but not a conspecific, indicating that motivation to socialize is intact in this strain. CD-1 avoidance is characterized by approach behavior that results in running in the opposite direction, activity that is consistent with a threat response. We next test whether CD-1 avoidance is subject to the same behavioral changes found in traditional models of Pavlovian fear conditioning. We find that associative learning occurs across 10 days CSDS, with defeated mice learning to associate the color of the CD-1 coat with threat. This leads to the gradual acquisition of avoidance behavior, a conditioned response that can be extinguished with 7 days of repeated social interaction testing (5 tests/day). Pairing a CD-1 with a tone leads to second-order conditioning, resulting in avoidance of an enclosure without a social target. Finally, we show that social interaction with a conspecific is a highly variable response in defeated mice that may reflect individual differences in generalization of fear to other social targets. Our data indicate that fear conditioning to a social target is a key component of CSDS, implicating the involvement of fear circuits in social avoidance.

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“…[1][2][3] Over the past decade, research has increasingly focused on cyber victimisation by peers; defined as victimisation conducted over the internet, especially social media. [4][5][6] Estimates of the prevalence of childhood exposure to cyber victimisation vary widely, largely as a result of variations in approaches to definition and measurement. 4 However, in the 2013/14 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey, 11% of 15 year old children in Europe reported being bullied by messages at least once in the past year and 9% reported being bullied by images at least once.…”

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The association between disability and risk of exposure to peer cyber victimisation is moderated by gender: Cross-sectional survey

Emerson

Aitken

King

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Disability and Health Journal

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Cyberbullying: An Unceasing Threat in Today's Digitalized World

Cited by 8 publications

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Youth Cyberbullying – Understanding Contextual Paths to Prevention and Resilience

Youth Cyberbullying – Understanding Contextual Paths to Prevention and Resilience

Chronic Social Defeat Stress Gives Rise to Social Avoidance Through Fear Learning

The association between disability and risk of exposure to peer cyber victimisation is moderated by gender: Cross-sectional survey

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