Responses to Cyberbullying: A Descriptive Analysis of the Frequency of and Impact on LGBT and Allied Youth

Abstract

Young people continue to endure school-yard bullying and harassment. In our era of advanced information and communication technologies, however, a new variation has emerged: we now live in the age of cyberbullying. The current study explores the frequency of cyberbullying and its impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT), and allied youth. Participants in this national study comprised middle school and high school students between the ages of 11 and 18 years old who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or with a same-sex attraction, or as a LGBT-allied youth. Participants represented 40 of the 50 United States.Young people continue to endure school-yard bullying and harassment. Bullying-also termed face-to-face (f2f), real-life (RL), traditional, in-person, or offline bullying-involves deliberate and repeated aggressive and hostile behaviors by an individual or group of individuals intended to humiliate, harm, and/or control another individual or group of individuals of lesser power or social status (Nansel et al., 2001). Bullying is a specific type of aggression in which (1) the behavior is intended to harm or disturb, (2) the behavior occurs repeatedly over time, and (3) there is an imbalance of power, with a more powerful person or group attacking a less powerful one (Garrett

Correlates of bullying in Quebec high school students: The vulnerability of sexual-minority youth

“…What remains unclear are the consequences of bullying within each group of sexual minorities. Studies hitherto have not investigated potential differences between such groups, but, rather, have considered SMY as a homogeneous group (Cooper and Blumenfeld, 2012;Varjas et al, 2013).…”

De l’école au cyberespace, le phénomène de l’intimidation en ligne chez les jeunes : état de la recherche et de l’intervention

“…Or, la cyberintimidation peut également exercer beaucoup de pression sur les jeunes ciblés, les laissant avec des sentiments de frustration et de tristesse et les rendant vulnérables au stress et à la démotivation scolaire (Li, 2007). Seule une minorité d'entre eux choisirait cependant de modifier leurs habitudes de navigation (Mason, 2008 (Cooper et Blumfeld, 2012). Ainsi, il est tentant de positionner les technologies de la communication comme le grand égalisateur des forces réelles, qui permet aux victimes de répondre coup pour coup aux agresseurs et qui propulse l'engrenage de la violence.…”

For Better or for Worse? A Systematic Review of the Evidence on Social Media Use and Depression Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Minorities (Preprint)

“…Three studies (27.3%) did not report participants' age range [38,39,44]. Seven studies included both male and female participants [35,[37][38][39][40][41][42]. In these studies, the percentage of the samples that reported their sex as female ranged from 55 to 78.1%.…”

“…Two studies included a sample of transgender participants with this group comprising 0.9% [40] and 0.8% [42] of the total. Additionally, two studies included a small sample of gender non-conforming participants.…”

“…Of the studies included, 72.7% consisted of cross-sectional surveys [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42], 18.2% consisted of qualitative analyses (Table 1) [43,44], and 9.1% combined cross-sectional surveys with social network analysis [45]. For studies that captured age of participants [35][36][37][41][42][43]45], age ranged between 11 and 30 years old.…”