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As adolescents increasingly navigate online spaces, cyber victimization has emerged as a significant concern for the development and protection of young people. Focusing on cybergrooming, the conducted systematic review aimed to integrate existing quantitative research on prevalence rates, risk factors, and outcomes of cybergrooming victimization, informed by an adaptation of the General Aggression Model. Studies providing self-reported data on cybergrooming victimization of people between the ages of 5 and 21 were included. A total of 34 studies met all inclusion criteria, with most focusing on adolescence. The present contribution focuses on studies investigating the association between (cyber-)bullying and cybergrooming. Overall, nine studies examined (cyber)bullying victimization and/or perpetration, consistently showing a positive association with cybergrooming victimization. Studies indicated a tendency for cybergrooming to be (a) more closely related to cyberbullying than to traditional bullying victimization, and (b) more closely related to (cyber)bullying victimization than to perpetration. However, the cross-sectional designs of most studies did not allow for an evidence-based determination of the causal direction. There are different theoretical explanatory approaches for the association between cybergrooming victimization and (cyber)bullying victimization (i.e., shared risk factors, increased vulnerability) and perpetration (i.e., perpetration-victimization-reciprocity), based on which the results can be embedded in the proposed model. Findings underscore polyvictimization as an existing issue that could be addressed by more holistic prevention and intervention programs targeting different types of victimization.
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polyvictimization, cybergrooming, cyber victimization, adolescence, systematic review
| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Qualitative method study |
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| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
