The Emotional Impact on Victims of Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Hogrefe Publishing Group in Zeitschrift für Psychologie
- Vol. 217 (4), 197-204
- https://doi.org/10.1027/0044-3409.217.4.197
Abstract
We examine the emotional impact caused to victims of bullying in its traditional form, both directly and indirectly, as well as bullying inflicted by use of new technologies such as mobile phones and the Internet. A sample of 1,671 adolescents and young people responded to a questionnaire which asked if they had been victims of various forms of bullying, as well as the emotions this caused. The results show that although traditional bullying affected significantly more young people than cyberbullying, the latter affected one in ten adolescents. Analysis of the emotions caused showed that traditional bullying produced a wide variety of impacts, with the victims being divided into five different emotional categories, while indirect bullying and cyberbullying presented a narrower variety of results with the victims being classifiable into just two groups: Those who said that they had not been emotionally affected and those who simultaneously suffered from a wide variety of negative emotions. The influence of age, gender, and severity on each emotional category is also analyzed.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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