As active social media users, young people are frequently exposed to and influenced by online disinformation. Their belief in and sharing behavior of misleading information are shaped not only by cognitive abilities and content features but also by peer influences and motivations linked to other forms of cyber aggression, such as cyberbullying. A scoping review focusing on young people aged 5...
Bullying is a complex phenomenon that cannot be solved with standardized
interventions. Each case requires an individualized approach, as bullying often involves
multi-causal and systemic factors. A major challenge in schools is distinguishing
bullying from conflict. This is particularly difficult when victims are actively involved in
the dynamic and not easily recognized as such....
This study aims to explore the experiences of cyberbullying among primary school-aged pupils diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). The population of children and young people with a diagnosis of ASC is increasing (Brown et al, 2024): a recent systematic review on the global prevalence of autism estimates that approximately one in 100 children are identified as autistic and is...
Bullying is a considerable problem among school students, and school-wide positive behaviour support interventions are regarded as helpful in addressing it. In this project, we use a research informed storybook to promote children’s awareness, understanding, and disclosure of school bullying. Targeted research-informed children’s storybooks can support primary care providers and children to...
Cyber bystanders are crucial for cyberbullying prevention and previous research investigating cyber bystanders focused on studying the online bystander effect and variables influencing the steps possibly taken by bystanders. However, it would also be important to learn more about adolescents’ personal views. Hence, the aim of our study was to understand what adolescents think about bystander...
Bullying is a significant global issue affecting adolescents, with serious implications for their overall well-being (Waseem & Nickerson, 2023). Previous research has identified a negative correlation between engagement in bullying perpetration and life satisfaction (Nixon, 2014; Reijntjes et al., 2010). Life satisfaction refers to an individual's assessment of their overall quality of life...
The classroom is a key social environment for social learning with peer interactions shaping social status, defined as popularity (social influence) and likability (peer acceptance). Adolescents often pursue popularity through aggression and bullying, while likability is achieved via prosocial behaviors. Some use both strategies, known as bistrategic control, though research on this topic...
In today’s digital world, children and young people face a constant stream of information, often without the skills to navigate it safely, critically and with resilience. Tozi is a non-commercial, free-to-download mobile app, developed by DCU Anti-Bullying Centre in collaboration with Vodafone Foundation Ireland and Childline by ISPCC.
Tozi aims to speak to audiences aged 11-14 to enhance...
Theoretical Background: Bystanders play a critical role mitigating the consequences of bullying, with individual and situational factors impacting their decision to actively defend online.
Objective: To examine four studies we conducted looking at factors influencing online bystanding.
Methodology: A cyber version of the Student Bystander Behaviour Scale (Thornberg & Jungert, 2013) and the...
Introduction:
Bullying is a pervasive problem occurring in schools worldwide. Research has highlighted the detrimental effects of bullying on mental, physical, social and emotional health on a short-term or long-term basis (Smith and Brain, 2000; Rigby, 2003). Recently, researchers have shown an interest in the link between bullying and trauma (Idsoe et al., 2021; Jenkins et al., 2022). The...
Bullying is a situational, context-dependent phenomenon shaped by students’ relational experiences and responses from teachers, schools, and society. This study investigates Indonesian students' and teachers' perspectives on bullying through a sociocultural lens (Maunder & Crafter, 2018). A recent national report (UNICEF, 2020) highlighted a significant knowledge gap between teachers and...
Bullying is an extensive phenomenon as reports indicate around 35% of victimization in schools. Recent studies confirm the impact of bullying on Physical Education (PE), highlighting the key role that PE teachers play in preventing, detecting, and tackling Bullying. In this line, PE teachers should possess specific knowledge and strategies to address this issue, but recent evidence suggests...
In helping conversations in a chat format, communication becomes more direct, and the voices of users are clearly visible. This invites new opportunities for developing services in line with user experiences. This paper analyzes chats from SnakkOmPsyken.no and focus groups with the chat hosts. This way of communicating transfers power from helpers to the young users. The technological and...
In case of school bullying victims feel isolated and ashamed, while adults (parents, teachers, educators) often feel helpless, struggling to understand the situation and find appropriate actions.
Traditional responses from the internet might be general and pose the risk of misinformation. **To tackle this, we co-created an innovative, secure, and free conversational agent: Chatbot...
This study examined third-party committee reports on severe bullying-related cases of school non-attendance among Japanese middle school students, categorizing issues in school approaches to bullying. Through online searches, ten reports published within the past five years were obtained. Key challenges were identified and grouped into 15 categories: (1) school policies on bullying, (2)...
Introduction: School bullying is associated with poorer well-being and mental health for both bullies and victims (e,g,,Smith, 2016). Bully-victims (or victim-bullies), in particular, face greater risk of psychological distress (e.g., Lereya et al., 2015). The present study examined the dynamic interplay between bully and victim roles through peer nominations and their associations with...
This poster will present the effective components of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which has to work together to effectively address and reduce bullying in schools. Fidelity to the program, and understanding these components, is crucial for achieving the outcome of reducing bullying and having a zero tolerance for bullying in practice.
The components are: strengthened...
Cyberbullying is a significant issue among higher education students, with a recent report showing that 18.4% of students in Ireland experienced negative acts, including bullying online and offline over the last academic year (Goldrick et al., 2023). However, there is a limited research focusing specifically on the process (e.g., what language was used, time of the day or the frequency of the...
Background and Objective:
The intersection of cyberbullying victimization and eating disorders has garnered considerable attention in recent years. Exist investigations demonstrate that there are strong correlations between cyberbullying victimization, negative emotion, low self-esteem, and eating disorders. This study aims to examine whether the association between cyberbullying...
Introduction
The prevalence of cybervictimization varies enormously from one study to another, ranging from 1.9% to 84 % [1], with inconsistent results concerning gender [2]. It is therefore difficult to get a precise idea of the phenomenon, especially as studies involving children under 12 or adolescents over 18 are rare [3]. An explanation of these inconsistencies could reside in the...
This qualitative systematic synthesis defines and describes the definition, nature and impact of cyberbullying and determines critical differences in the definition between developing and developed nations (as per World Bank’s Low, Lower-middle and High Income country). Using the Prisma model and utilizing World Bank categorization of nations, this research systematically examines the...
Theoretical Background and Objective: This study examines how digital media in Ireland frames online grooming, a digital exploitation issue where adults target minors for abuse. Using framing theory, which shows how media can shape public perceptions by highlighting certain story aspects, this research analyses the role of media in Ireland in influencing awareness, policy discourse, and...
The recording of incidents of physical bullying among South African school learners and circulation of such recordings via social media platforms, is growing and causes significant psycho-social distress for survivors. Despite ongoing scholarship centred on the relationship between traditional bullying and cyberbullying, the interconnectedness of physical and cyberbullying is frequently...
Introduction and aims:Adolescents involved in bullying have lower levels of emotional intelligence. Research highlights the importance of a multifaceted approach to promoting emotional competences as a means to address this issue: developing emotional regulation skills is crucial for both bullies and victims (Ruenda et al. 2021; Baroncelli & Ciucci, 2014). This study aims to: (1) identify...
Abstract:
This poster presents empirical findings from two Master’s research projects conducted within New Zealand's Sticks 'n Stones programme, focused on Year 7 and 8 students. Grounded in participatory design theory, both studies examine the effects of involving students as co-designers in bullying prevention efforts to increase program relevance and impact.
Theoretical Background and...
Ethnic Online Hate Speech (eOHS) includes all expressions of online hatred directed toward ethnic minorities and individuals of migrant background, with a significant negative impact on the mental health of affected groups. Despite its distinctive characteristics – a direct attack on collective identities rather than on individuals – prior research indicates that eOHS shares similarities with...
Theoretical Background and Objective:
Psychological maladjustment in child is associated with peer victimization that imparts effects on the mental health of children and their social relationships such as student teacher interactions. Such adverse experiences often lead to sleep disturbances and negative dreams, which can increase psychological distress. However, the role of dream...
This study examines the relationship between educational programs that teach students how to seek and offer help (SOS) and classroom climate in junior high schools. In Japan, suicide prevention education for youth has gained importance, and psychological professionals in schools are held in high regard. Prior research suggests that help-seeking behaviors are influenced by both individual and...
Cyberbullying occurs through digital devices, often on social media, where bystanders can respond through public or private comments by supporting the bully, supporting the victim, or remaining uninvolved. This study investigates how online connectedness, empathy (cognitive and affective), and social self-efficacy predict bystanders' responses to cyberbullying—specifically, inaction (IN),...
Classroom social network diagnostics have been proposed to be one of effective anti-bullying measures for monitoring bullying and victimization in schools. However, it is not well understood how the classroom climate and the individual personalities of each student are related to the structure of the classroom social networks. In this study, we used network analysis techniques to visualize...
Bullying remains a central issue for youth, educators, parents, and schools. One of the most concerning effects of bullying victimization is suicidal ideation. There are numerous reports of adolescents committing suicide as a result of bullying. However, it is unclear if the relationship between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation is the same for students with IEPs. Further, it is...
It is estimated that 20-69% of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) experience bullying involvement (Chatzitheochari et al., 2016; Blake et al., 2012; Rose at al., 2011). Yet we know very little about positive and negative networks and interactions between pupils in special schools. This study aims to explore peer networks in special schools to better understand the...
Bullying victimization can have lasting impacts on mental health and suicide risk. Theoretical models suggest that bullying experiences create lasting patterns of interpersonal sensitivity (IPS) and negative self-beliefs (Rosen et al., 2007), which shape how individuals process and respond to social information across contexts (Crick & Dodge, 1994). This study has two goals: (1) to examine how...
Bullying victimization among college students is an underexplored area of research. Few estimates of bullying can be found in the literature although a few studies in different nations have estimated that about 8% of undergraduates experience it at school. Perhaps due its lower prevalence, there is also a paucity of studies on college students regarding the impact of victimization on the...
Gleding started in 2015, as a word from a 9 year old, being the answer to the question: What is the opposite of bullying? Instead of focusing on what we do not want - Gleding contributes with storytelling, awareness, mindset, tools, books and digital content to build a strong community from the beginning of life. We bring parents, professionals, caretakers and children together around a shared...
Theoretical background and objective of the study: In recent years, ample studies have investigated the risk and protective factors of cyberbullying during adolescence. However, there has been comparatively less research examining the impact of environmental risks, such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Additionally, most studies in this field rely on cross-sectional designs, which...
Teachers play a crucial role in addressing stigma-based bullying (SBB), yet few studies compare their responses across different SBB types and how these relate to individual and contextual factors. This study examined the association between individual and contextual factors and diverse teachers' hypothetical and actual responses to bullying based on disability, ethnicity, and sexual...
Collaboration between parents and schools has been promoted as an effective response to cyberbullying (Olenik-Shemesh et al., 2019). However, research suggests that collaborative responses are not fully utilised by parents (Stuart et al., 2022) or teachers (Strohmeier & Gradinger, 2021). Prior research has largely conducted survey studies with educators to explore responses to hypothetical...
This study explores how anti-gender movements utilise digital hostility as a structured form of ideological bullying to marginalise LGBTQI+ individuals and reinforce exclusionary social hierarchies. Despite increased awareness of bias-based cyberbullying, there remains a limited understanding of how such hostility operates within ideological frameworks, particularly as organised campaigns to...
Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of social-emotional learning (SEL) as a ‘zeitgeist’ that has captured the imagination of educationalists. This neurologically-inflected approach to education – which seeks to cultivate a wide array of ‘non-cognitive’ skills, attributes, competencies, values and traits such as ‘empathy’ ‘wellbeing’, and ‘resilience’ – is increasingly positioned as a...
Kanvas is a non-profit foundation owning and running 64 kindergartens in Norway, with 1200 employees responsible for 6000 children, approximately. Since 2021, we have introduced several measures to meet the new standards of §8 in the Kindergarten Act, including systematic procedures to strengthen the psychosocial kindergarten environment in general, and to prevent bullying in particular....
This study evaluates the knowledge and skills of public elementary school teachers in Puerto Rico regarding bullying prevention and management. A comparative quantitative approach revealed significant deficiencies in teachers' knowledge and skills, particularly in handling cyberbullying and supporting LGBTQ+ students. Data from 412 public elementary school teachers in Puerto Rico was collected...
Background and Purpose
Persons with disabilities (PWD) in Singapore often face socio-emotional challenges, including bullying and discrimination. Despite these challenges, the experiences of PWDs who seek help after enduring bullying remain understudied. This study aims to investigate the support systems available to PWDs who have been bullied, shedding light on their effectiveness and areas...
Theoretical background and objective of the study: In Norway, about 30% of youth face unkind online comments, and 25% experience cyber exclusion or meanness. Furthermore, 4% reported being cyberbullied in 2023. Cyberbullying is associated with serious mental health problems like depression and anxiety. The mobile app NettOpp was developed to raise awareness and provide easy accessible support...
Background
Despite the prevalence and impact of peer victimization, prevention efforts at the secondary level are largely ineffective for bullying (Yeager et al., 2015), and sexual harassment is rarely a focus (Cook-Craig et al., 2014). Norms and Bystander Intervention Training (NAB IT!) is a 4-hour intervention based on Latané and Darley’s (1970) five-step bystander intervention model...
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...
Bullying victimization is associated with myriad negative outcomes for both children and adults (McDougall & Vaillancourt, 2015). Experiences of victimization may be experienced as extremely distressing because they threaten the need to belong and to have ongoing positive interactions with others who provide companionship and caring (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). The current study examines how...
Purpose: This study explores the stability and changes in bullying and victimization among rural middle school students in the U.S. over two years, examining the role of school, peer, and family support in predicting involvement in these dynamics.
Method: Data were collected from 802 students across two rural middle schools, focusing on bullying, victimization, online victimization, and...
Theoretical Background and Objective of the Study. Bullying is a widespread phenomenon in our society, with serious consequences for children and adolescents. Teachers play a critical role in addressing this issue, acting as key agents in preventing, detecting, and tackling bullying cases. Consequently, it is essential that pre-service teachers receive both theoretical and practical training...
Understanding pathways to suicidal ideation is crucial for prevention efforts, as peer victimization (PV) has emerged as a significant prospective predictor of suicidal ideation (van Geel et al., 2022). Drawing on the Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power, which links powerlessness to increased threat sensitivity and behavioral inhibition (Keltner et al., 2003), this study investigated whether...
Although research on school safety is complex and draws on multiple disciplines, there is a lack of consensus among researchers and policy makers on the best strategies for creating safe schools. To address the persistent problem of bullying as one of the most important school safety issues, schools employ a variety of prevention strategies. The purpose of this study was to test association of...
Bullying is a public health issue and is one of the most serious concerns facing schools across the United States (Cook et al., 2010; Dinkes et al., 2009; Nickerson, 2019). Personnel with specialized training to prevent and address bullying are needed. Northern Illinois University’s Project Prevent and Address Bullying Behavior at All Tiers (PPABB) was made possible by a grant from the U.S....
Inclusive and supportive classroom environments are crucial, particularly during political and societal crises such as wars, disinformation, polarization, and rising populism and extremism. While existing research highlights the importance of these aspects of school environments, there is a lack of studies examining the impact of anti-hate speech prevention programs on the classroom...
Background: Gender non-conforming (GNC) youth face heightened risks for cyberbullying, Yet, less is known which risks and protective factors influence or reduce their vulnerability. This study explores the association between specific risk and protective factors and cyberbullying among GNC youth.
Methods: Data were derived from the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). An...
Norwegian School Student Union (Elevorganisasjonen) wants to create a poster highlighting the importance of Section 9A of the Education Act, which is Section 12 in the new Education Act. We aim to show how the law helps protect students, especially those who feel school is not a safe or supportive place.
We want to convey this through these points:
- Chapter 9A was introduced in 2017...
The UVDBase Project phase 4 is dedicated to furthering development of a documentation and communications human-centered supportive technical system identifying and neutralizing organizational, technical, personal, cultural, and ethical barriers hindering communication and effective resolution of school-based conflict problem outcomes.
Current focus is on development of socio-technical...
Early childhood education represents a critical period for instilling social and emotional skills that foster positive peer interactions. Unfortunately, bullying behaviors can emerge even at this tender age, highlighting the urgent need for effective, age-appropriate antibullying policies. This study will take place in one elementary school, where I will engage with kindergarten teachers,...
Children’s literature has been used in attempt to mitigate bullying behaviors (Wee et al., 2022). Language socialization occurs through literature, both through the types of contextual messages conveyed and within how characters are portrayed. Given the socialization process salient to storytelling, it may be important to consider the messages presented within children’s literature and the...
Background: Bullying is a significant public health issue affecting children’s physical, emotional, and mental health. Traditional anti-bullying programs have shown varying degrees of effectiveness, highlighting the need for alternative approaches. This study, conducted in Norway, introduces a peer support group intervention based on a solution-focused approach (SFA), aimed at reducing...
Theoretical background and objective of the study. The Internet plays a crucial role in the personal and social growth of adolescents. However, the Internet also facilitates the development and proliferation of cyberbullying among adolescents. Various systematic reviews have highlighted several successful didactic actions developed within the school context to address cyberbullying. Moreover,...
Antibullying programmes that focus on dynamic social group practices and discourses, such as KiVa, have been relatively successful but are less effective during adolescence when peer relationships are crucial for identity, belonging and wellbeing. To explore this further, a ‘Critical Discursive Psychology’ (CDP) approach was embedded throughout development and delivery of an intervention and...
Background/Objectives: Identity-based bullying experiences (IBBE) during childhood can have lasting impacts on adult well-being. Research asserts adverse bullying outcomes are more prevalent among minoritized populations, including LGBTQ individuals. Social support theory suggests supportive relationships can buffer against adverse childhood experiences. Yet, limited research has examined...
Introduction:
When children are bullied, parental support is crucial for mitigating negative effects (Lereya et al., 2013). Research highlights how parents help their children cope, but little focuses on how parents themselves cope with their child's bullying. Research suggests that parents often feel anger, stress, and sadness, and lack adequate support from schools, turning to chat rooms...
Theoretical background and objective of the study:
Research on stigma-based bullying has focused on individual variables, such as personal characteristics or beliefs of aggressors, leaving out contextual factors. This study investigates the influence of school climate on student roles as non-aggressors, general bullying aggressors, or stigma-based bullying aggressors, focusing on factors...
Bullying literature has primarily focused on school and child impact, yet bullying has a negative impact on parent wellbeing (Harcourt, Green, and Bowden 2015). Schools are often seen as an obvious institution for interventions with children as, by their very nature, they interact with children in their daily lives during their formative years. For schools in England, Head Teachers have a...
Background: Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) is a narrow personality trait that encompasses an individual’s tendency to accept and endorse group-based social hierarchies and the extent to which they desire their in-group to be superior to out-groups. Such attitudes about group hierarchies are often a prelude to discriminatory behaviour. Indeed, it has been argued that bullying is a form of...
In Japan, the Act for the Promotion of Bullying Prevention Measures was enacted in 2015. This study aimed to evaluate the state of bullying and students' assessments of school anti-bullying efforts in compulsory education (six years of elementary and three years of middle school) post-enactment. In March 2024, a retrospective online survey was conducted with 3,500 high school students aged...
“Voice is not enough” for meaningful approaches to children’s participation in research. Other factors such as the creation of a safe space for children to express themselves, and actions that ensure that children and young people’s views are taken seriously into consideration are necessary preconditions.
This work presents the evaluation of the prototype version of the Happy Onlife,...
Online hate speech (OHS) is a form of cyberviolence characterized by the spread of discriminatory or offensive content targeting groups based on attributes such as ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Despite increasing research on OHS, systematic understanding of OHSs targeting sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) remains limited. This focus is critical, as SGMs often face...
The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) developed a United Against Bullying (UAB) Programme, which was available free to schools in England across a three year period from November 2021 to March 2024. The programme was a whole school approach to preventing and responding to bullying, with a particular focus on those children who are most vulnerable and more likely to be victims of bullying such as...
Theoretical background and objective
Bystanders' responses to cyberviolence, such as cyberbullying, cyberhate, and non-consensual sexting, play a critical role in mitigating or intensifying its impact. Traditional research has been limited to classifying bystanders —defender, reinforcer, and passive—without considering possible roles’ variations based on context. Therefore, this study aims...
Previous research has consistently shown that there is a longitudinal path from defender self-efficacy to defending behavior, however, it remains unclear whether there is also a path in the reverse direction from defending to self-efficacy.
Theoretical background and goal: Guided by the reformulated social information-processing model, this three-wave longitudinal study examines the...
While the term “bullying” is widespread in international research, non-English-speaking countries often use different terminology. In France, “harcèlement scolaire” (harassment in English) is the dominant term; however, it seems to frequently refer to severe cases of violence. Thus, one can ask if this denomination is relevant to translate the concept of bullying. This study examines the...
Bullying in schools is a serious and unrecognized problem in Sri Lanka. Through my personal experiences and observations of unfortunate events in schools, I realized many students, parents and teachers still fail to understand what bullying is and recognize associated signs and behaviour patterns. Some believe bullying is a normal part of childhood that helps build stronger character, failing...
The heightened ambiguity in text-based banter due to the absence of non-verbal cues can lead to misinterpretations and escalations into perceived bullying. This research explored university students' perspectives of online banter, focusing on the use of graphical cues such as emojis, GIFs, and stickers. The aim was to explore commonly used graphical cues among the age group, along with the...
Cyberbullying has grown into a global concern over the last decade. Developing valid and reliable assessment tools is essential for understanding this phenomenon and designing effective prevention and intervention strategies. In this context, the Cybervictimization Questionnaire for adolescents (CYVIC; Álvarez-García et al., 2017) has proven to be a valuable tool. Now that 10 years have passed...
1 Project Background
1.1 The Jockey Club “Love & Respect” School Empowerment Programme is a territory-wide project based in Hong Kong, serving 100 primary schools of all SEC and cultural background, particularly for schools who would like to tackle bullying issues at school.
1.2 Interventions are mainly delivered by Social Workers (franchise currently no available), while teachers and...
