Cyberbullying in adolescents: a literature review
Affiliation.
- 1 Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
- PMID: 35245420
- DOI: 10.1515/ijamh-2021-0133
Cyberbullying is a universal public health concern that affects adolescents. The growing usage of electronic gadgets and the Internet has been connected to a rise in cyberbullying. The increasing use of the Internet, along with the negative outcomes of cyberbullying on adolescents, has required the study of cyberbullying. In this paper author reviews existing literature on cyberbullying among adolescents. The concept of cyberbullying is explained, including definitions, types of cyberbullying, characteristics or features of victims and cyberbullies, risk factors or causes underlying cyberbullying, and the harmful consequences of cyberbullying to adolescents. Furthermore, examples of programs or intervention to prevent cyberbullying and recommendations for further studies are presented.
Keywords: adolescents; cyberbullying; literature review.
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Publication types
- Adolescent Behavior*
- Bullying* / prevention & control
- Crime Victims*
- Cyberbullying*
- Risk Factors
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In an important contribution to the field, Peter and Petermann (2018) distilled the essential elements of existing cyberbullying definitions in their concept analysis of articles published since 2010. Their findings led to the following definition of cyberbullying as “using information and communication technologies (ICT) to repeatedly and ...
Cyberbullying exerts negative effects on many aspects of young people's lives, including personal privacy invasion and psychological disorders. The influence of cyberbullying may be worse than traditional bullying as perpetrators can act anonymously and connect easily with children and adolescents at any time .
Emerging evidence has revealed that many characteristics of cyberbullying—its definition, prevalence rates, risk and protective factors, outcomes, and prevention strategies—are related and yet somewhat unique from traditional bullying. The ubiquity of technology in the lives of youth presents an opportunity for individuals to intentionally and repetitively harm others, 24 h per day ...
Cyberbullying is an important phenomenon but to date there exists no universally accepted definition. This leads to a variety of Definitions and conceptualizations, making it almost impossible to generalize their results. The purposes of this paper are 1) to present the current state of definitions, 2) to define cyberbullying based on a concept analysis), 3) to illustrate relationships between ...
Our review reveals a wi de range of psychosocial effects for both the victims. and perpetrators of cyberbullying, such as low self-esteem and morale iss ues. Several individual, social, and. te ...
Ersilia Menesini. Christiane Spiel. Amy Bellmore. This introduction provides an overview of the special issue of the Journal of School Violence. We present a rationale for the need for new ...
al domain of offline to online and is understood as cyberbullying. Aim: This review aims to assess the concept, types of cyberbullying, prevalence, risk and protective factors, conceptual models explaining cyberbullying, psychological impact, and preventive strategies for cyberbullying. Methodology: Internet sources (PubMed and Google Scholar) were searched for the available literature, and a ...
Although studies were characterized by a large variety in cyberbullying operationalization and measurement, and by different methodologies used for data collection, the prevalence rates of the involvement in cyber Bullying and/or cybervictimization generally revealed opposite trends: an increase in many Asian countries and Australia and a ...
In this paper author reviews existing literature on cyberbullying among adolescents. The concept of cyberbullying is explained, including definitions, types of cyberbullying, characteristics or features of victims and cyberbullies, risk factors or causes underlying cyberbullying, and the harmful consequences of cyberbullying to adolescents.