Phenomenon.” Pediatric Nursing, vol. 41, no. 3, 2015, pp. 115–125. CINAHL Complete, eds.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=34&sid=3e34c396-34b8-4696-b468-9beaeca5f3ff%40sessionmgr4007&hid=4205&bdata=jnnpdgu9zwhvc3qtbgl2zq%3d%3d#an=109799994&db=ccm.
The authors of this article conducted their research in order to find out just how common cyberbullying is among individuals aged 10-18 years. In order to do so they monitored the “daily use of technology that could be used to cyberbully peers.” They found that “30% of participants had been bullied during school, and 17% had been cyberbullied.” Their research brought to attention that 92% of participants …show more content…
“Risk Factors Associated with Impact of Severity of Cyberbullying
Victimization: A Qualitative Study of Adolescent Online Social Networking.” CyberPsychology &Amp; Behavior; Journal of Cybertherapy and Rehabilitation, vol. 17, no. 5, 2014, pp. 287–291. PsycINFO, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2013.0541.
The goal of the research in the article was to bring out into the open themes of which cyberbullying can take effect. With 25 participants ages ranging from 15 to 24 years they found that cyberbullying was “related to publicity, anonymity of perpetrators, features of the medium, and presence of bystanders,” all of which affect the level of impact of the cyberbully. While conducting their research they found that cyberbullying did not affect every individual negatively; they could not determine the factors which could account for the different reactions amongst the …show more content…
What they found was that there were three forms of cyberbully participants: the victim, the perpetrator, and the perpetrator-victim. 6.6% of students admitted to being the victim, 5.0% to being the perpetrator, and 4.3% to being the perpetrator-victims. All three classifications of cyberbully participants reported that they use the internet for at last 3 hours a day. They found that “sexual-minority” students who sent or received text messages around 50 times a day were more likely to be victimized and that girls in general were more likely to be