Cyberbullying is recognized as a serious public health problem in youth and increasingly linked with both short and long term psychological, physiological and social consequences. In the age of social media, clinicians are expected to have a low threshold of suspicion for cyberbullying; however, an insufficient awareness of its prevalence along with a lack of available standardized interviewing...

This paper takes the results of a previous study and considers them in the light of societal concerns about cyberbullying. The topic of cyberbullying attracts a great deal of attention in the more popular media, with many of those involved expressing frustration or uncertain of their responsibilities. The previous study found a relatively high level of cyberbullying among university students an...

Usage of internet and social media backgrounds tends in the use sending, receiving posting negative, harmful, false or mean content about another individual which thus means Cyberbullying. Bullying over also works same as threatening, calumny, chastising individual. Cyberbullying has led to a severe increase mental health problems, especially among young generation. It resulted lower self-estee...

Cyberbullying is willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text. Computer software was developed to detect the presence of cyberbullying in online chat conversations. Rules based on a dictionary of key words are used to classify a window of posts. A truth set of MySpace threads was created. The software was found to correctly identify windows containing cyberbullying ...

With increasing reliance on computer-mediated communication, emergencies and negative communication will also increase. Nearly one-fifth of adolescents report being cyberbullied, and over 25% of those report multiple occurrences. Though important gains have been made to understand the adverse effects and possible risk factors of cyberbullying for victims and cyberbullies, most individuals (70%;...

While school bullying has been shown to be associated with depression and suicidality among teens, the relationship between these outcomes and cyberbullying has not been studied in nationally representative samples. Data came from the 2011 CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), a nationally representative sample of high-school students (N=15,425). We calculated weighted estimates representative...

It is hard to imagine a world without mobile phones, PDAs, and wireless/Broadband access on PCs. With the prevalence of electronic communication tools, people (including students) are finding it harder to live without them. Not surprisingly, these electronic communication tools provide benefits that enrich students’ scholarly and social experiences. However, evidence also shows that the usage o...

As children gain access to electronic communication devices at increasingly younger ages, bullying is no longer restricted to the traditional “schoolyard” setting. The present study investigates a) the prevalence of cyberbullying in a sample of fourth and fifth graders and b) the role of hostile attribution bias (HAB) in children’s interpretations of ambiguous cyber provocation scenarios and in...

Cyberbullying or electronic aggression has already been designated as a serious public health threat. Cyberbullying should also be considered as a cause for new onset psychological symptoms, somatic symptoms of unclear etiology or a drop in academic performance. Pediatricians should be trained to play a major role in caring for and supporting the social and developmental well-being of children.