Parental Supervision: Predictive Variables of Positive Involvement in Cyberbullying Prevention

Parental Mediation, Online Activities, and Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying, the use of information and communication technologies to intentionally harm others, has become an important area of research. Studies have begun to investigate the extent of cyberbullying and its victims' personality characteristics. Less is known about the effect of specific online activities and the role of parental mediation on the likelihood of being bullied. This study attem...

Cyberbullying: Youngsters' Experiences and Parental Perception

This paper describes a survey on the prevalence and nature of cyberbullying of and by youngsters and the parental perceptions. Two questionnaires, one for youngsters and one for their parents, were sent to 1,211 final-year pupils of primary schools and first-year pupils of all levels of secondary schools and their parents. Pupils completed the questionnaires in their classroom, and parents comp...

Parental supervision: a popular myth.

There must be few categories of childhood injury for which parental supervision, or the lack of it, has not been invoked as a contributory factor. Since 1990 alone, lack ofparental supervision has been proposed as a cause of road traffic injury,' electrical burn injury,2 and infant walker related injury.3 In most cases the identification of the aetiological role of parental supervision is intui...

Active Dendrites under Parental Supervision

Pyramidal cell dendrites are able to produce a variety of active calcium signals in brain slices. In this issue of Neuron, Grienberger et al. (2014) investigate dendritic function in the hippocampus of live mice.

A social cognitive perspective in cyberbullying prevention