Prevalence and Correlates of Cyberbullying Perpetration. Findings from a German Representative Student Survey

Bergmann, Marie Christine; Baier, Dirk

doi:10.3390/ijerph15020274

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“…Our results revealed that spending more time online and talking frequently about cyberbullying increase the odds of being perpetrators/victims. This nding was in line with previous researches' [26,16,17]. This result also showed that the adolescents must have knowledge of the risk of using ICTs.…”

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Cyberbullying in Rabat area Morocco: A Middle School Student Survey

Miami

Belahcen

Lahlou

et al. 2020

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Background:Despite being a widely debated health issue in several countries around the globe, in Morocco there is still little research on this phenomenon of cyber bulling.To examine the occurrence of cyber bullying among students in middle schools in Rabat area and to discover risk factors among students’ cyberbullying profiles is the main purpose of the present study.Methods: The study that is a cross sectional one is based on a nameless self –report questionnaire about subjected cyber bullying in the course of the previous twelve months. Indeed, it was in16 middle –schools in the urban areas of Rabat that data were collected. Aged 12 to 16 years, a number of 1914 students took part in the survey.Seeking the interconnection between the cyber bulling groups and independent variables we used a Multinomial Logistic Regression.Results:Cyber bullying has been announced by 54,5%(n=1043) CI 95% (52,26-56,72) of the sample, of which 18,8%(n=360), being victims only, 11,7% (n=224) being perpetrators only, and 24,0% (n=459) being perpetrators/victims. But there wasn’t any important difference to be mentioned in profile between genders. Text messages and exclusion from internet groups were the most common genre of cyber bullying behavior. Concerning traditional bullying, the prevalence were 35% (n=669) of whom 16,4% (n=313) victims only, 7,6% (n=145) perpetrators only and 11%(n=211) perpetrators/victims. Our research showed that traditional bullying was the basic risk factor of cyber bullying. Conclusion:In brief cyber bullying is one of the most widely spread phenomenon among adolescents in middle schools in Rabat area. Being involved in traditional bullying is the main risk. Consequently, urgent is the need to take actions against it either to eradicate violence in schools or at least reduce it.

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“…A study performed in Germany in 2018 conducted on a sample of 9512 students with an average age of 14.9 years found out a prevalence of 26,7% of students involved in at least one act of online psychological aggression during the last six months [17].…”

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Cyberbullying in Rabat area Morocco: A Middle School Student Survey

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Belahcen

Lahlou

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“…In a study with Finnish adolescents, 6% reported that they have had posted, forwarded, or shared online hate material (Räsänen et al, 2016). With regard to cyberbullying, one representative German study of 9,512 students found that 2.4% of the participants could be classified as cyberbullies (Bergmann & Baier, 2018).…”

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Understanding the overlap between cyberbullying and cyberhate perpetration: Moderating effects of toxic online disinhibition

Wachs

Wright

Vazsonyi

2019

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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Background Problem behaviour theory postulates that different forms of norm violations cluster and can be explained by similar antecedents. One such cluster may include cyberbullying and cyberhate perpetration. A potential explanatory mechanism includes toxic online disinhibition, characterised by anonymity, an inability to empathise and to recognise and interpret social cues. The current study to develop a better understanding of the relationship between cyberhate and cyberbullying to inform effective intervention and prevention efforts. Aims To test the link between cyberbullying and cyberhate and whether this relationship was moderated by toxic online disinhibition. Methods Self‐report questionnaires on cyberbullying, cyberhate, and toxic online disinhibition were completed by 1,480 adolescents between 12 and 17 years old (M = 14.21 years; SD = 1.68). Results Increases in cyberbullying perpetration and toxic online disinhibition were positively related to cyberhate perpetration. Furthermore, cyberbullies reported more cyberhate perpetration when they reported higher levels of toxic online disinhibition and less frequent cyberhate perpetration when they reported lower levels of toxic online disinhibition. Conclusion The current study provides evidence of a possible link between cyberbullying and cyberhate perpetration, moderated by toxic online disinhibition. This suggests that, to be effective, prevention and intervention programmes should (i) consider the co‐occurrence of varying forms of cyberaggression and (ii) consider potential effects of the online environment on aggressive online behaviour among young people.

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“…Victims have received the most attention with respect to the consequences of being cyberbullied. Thus, many studies have revealed that cyberbullying victims experience anxiety, depression, stress, fear, low self-esteem, feelings of anger and frustration, helplessness, nervousness, irritability, somatization, sleep disorders, suicidal thinking, and concentrating difficulties that affect school performance [5][6][7][8][9], whereas aggressors are more likely to have moral disconnection, a lack of empathy with victims, problems caused by their aggressive behavior, criminal conduct, consumption of alcohol and drugs, technology dependence, and school absenteeism [10][11][12][13]. Therefore, past empirical studies have tended to focus on examining the results of being a cyberbullying victim or aggressor, in order to intervene and alleviate these consequences.…”

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Cyberbullying, Aggressiveness, and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescence

Martínez-Monteagudo

Delgado

Garcı́a-Fernández

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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The devastating consequences of cyberbullying during adolescence justify the relevance of obtaining empirical evidence on the factors that may cause participation in its distinct roles. The goal of this study was to analyze the predictive capacity of aggressiveness (physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility) and emotional intelligence (attention, understanding, and emotional regulation) with respect to being a victim, aggressor or victim-aggressor of cyberbullying during adolescence. The Screening for Peer Bullying, the Aggressiveness Questionnaire and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24 were administered to a sample of 1102 Spanish secondary education students, aged 12 to 18. In general, results revealed a higher probability of being a victim, aggressor or victim-aggressor as physical aggressiveness and anger increased. On the other hand, results revealed a low probability of being a victim, aggressor or victim-aggressor as emotional understanding and emotional regulation increased. These findings highlight the importance of considering said variables when creating prevention programs to stop or reduce the social and educational issue of cyberbullying during adolescence.

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Prevalence and Correlates of Cyberbullying Perpetration. Findings from a German Representative Student Survey

Cited by 37 publications

References 32 publications

Cyberbullying in Rabat area Morocco: A Middle School Student Survey

Cyberbullying in Rabat area Morocco: A Middle School Student Survey

Understanding the overlap between cyberbullying and cyberhate perpetration: Moderating effects of toxic online disinhibition

Cyberbullying, Aggressiveness, and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescence

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