Social psychology concentration

Cyberbullying

Alexis Niel

Southern New Hampshire University

Abstract

According to Hirsch, "the perpetrators of cyber bullying are around 1 in 4 teenagers, and about 1 in 6 reports having cyberbullied anyone. More than half of the teenagers surveyed in some surveys have said they have encountered violence through social as well as digital media "(Hirsch, 2014). There are various and nuanced effects of cyberbullying. Sorrow, feeling wounded, poor mental wellbeing, school attendance is significant reasons for cyber-stalking.

2. Statement of the topic and a description of its importance and relevance:

All sorts of bullying, especially cyberbullying, can have a severe impact on our decades today. Stopping the development of technical devices in contemporary society seems inevitable. Cyberbullying can create long emotional wounds, even lethal aftermath. Recently, I've read enough disturbing news stories like rape, murder, and several other things that occurred as a result of cyberbullying. Mobile phones, forums, emails, social media sites, as well as other digital media are an equal and vital part of the lives of the majority. However, to get real results from this electronic equipment, cyberbullying needs to be stopped.

3. Background Information:

Cyberbullying comprises bullying, which occurs through the web, email, social media, tweets, forums, mobile phones, or some other digital technology. Two years earlier, there had been a film that brought a crazy conversation about adolescents, which is about such a young girl who had been a cyberbullying survivor. She is getting her mother's computer for her birthday. As she joins in a social media network, whereby her peers start submitting important stuff to her account, the condition evolves. She begins to love him once she meets a guy as he sticks up for her, however when he starts to turn and writing bad stuff about her being on web, she always takes it seriously as well as loses track. Instead, by getting hooked on drugs, her excellent friend catches her attempting to attempt suicide. Cyberbullying is becoming harder to handle as technological advancements have evolved (Smith, 2010). Donegan(2012) writes, a first notable case occurred in 1998, a middle school boy in the US brought into existence a social network where he put blackmailing and threatening statements to his teacher and soon, he was bleached from the school due to the harassment, provoking, disrespect, threats. The first time, the American states like Colorado have passed anti-bullying legislation that required strict policies about bullying, including cyberbullying.

4. Research Questions/Objectives:

Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what kind of problems and emotional effects teenagers and children have regarding an online attack, as well as how we can stop it and propose possible ways of preventing it. It will help those who need help, support, and actual development of the future generation, which were harmed from online stalking. In modern society, many things have changed since the 20th century.

5. Research Methods:

To answer these questions, around 20 KIMEP students, professionals, teenagers, parents, as there is an essential number of families with modern upbringing, with an equal amount of males and females approximately aged from 13 to 30 will be asked to fill out a questionnaire that includes survey and questions related to cyberbullying. Also, the data will be collected by face to face interview. Interviews are used to get the story of a participant's cyberbullying experiences.

6. Hypothesis/Expectations:

The theory of this research is that the results will show an equal number of students, children, parents who are influenced, impacted by cyberbullying. Also, if they were cyberbullied, how they find solutions to prevent or stop, and suggestions to avoid such kinds of problems.

Chapter 2 – Literature review

The present analysis of the literature seeks to review current information on dealing with cyberbullying. The goal of such research was also to examine the literature regarding cyberbullying as well as the effect it has on young people. The cyberbullying information would be contrasted with each other and with conventional bullying. Abusers could now submit threatening emails or phone calls, post offensive messages through digital noticeboards or forums, and even create websites to spread somebody's defamatory material. Individuals can also use texts to threaten a victim and through their mobile phones (Patchin & Hinduja, 2006). Stress management strategies are described as habits of responses; however, also feelings/behaviors which are useful towards cyberbullying and failing to do so. We distinguish among three various areas of coping: decreasing risks, addressing the issue, and latency adverse effects. A randomized trial of literature producing eight related papers was performed. Conceptually, cyberbullying includes transmitting or uploading offensive or offensive text, including images through the web (like instant messages, emails, bulletin boards, including social media sites) or any other electronic communication tools, like mobile phones (Adams, 2010). These may include stalking, intimidation, abuse, impersonation, embarrassment, trickery, even omission.

Chapter 3 – Results

The purpose of the research was to study what kind of problems and emotional effects teenagers and children have regarding an online attack as well as how we can stop cyberbullying and propose possible ways of preventing it. To find information for the study, there was one face-to-face interview with the man who is a psychologist asked to avoid publishing his identity, conducted a survey among 20 teenagers with an equal amount of males and females approximately aged from 13 to 19.

Chapter 4 – Discussion

The survey and interview were conducted to find what emotional effects teenagers and children can have after they have been cyberbullied and what preventive measures need to be taken to reduce online stalking. In a century of growing technologies, a lot of teenager’s abuse using electronic devices and don't know that it can seriously hurt, destroy one's life. The research paper also focuses on finding solutions from cyberbullying. Although, there are enough experts have researched online attack, this research paper has found some new interesting facts and reasonable measures to prevent cyberbullying through conducting the interview, which was taken from expert, and survey, which participants were teenagers.

Some parts of the research around cyberbullying exploitation may be repletion with blended findings. The interview with the expert indicates that stricter laws against cyberbullying do not help to decide the problem. This finding will be much as predicted and parallels what was observed in our previous studies of a scale of Global Negative Self-Evaluations (Alsaker & Olweus, 1986) as well as the global problem of conventional harassment (Solberg & Olweus, 2003). These findings show that few'' new''' victims or even abusers responded to the latest social media. Cyberbullied either to cyberbully many learners seemed to be component of an overall trend of bullying to something like a large degree when the usage of social media remains only one potential form and a type with a rather low incidence. The findings also indicate that while many cyberbullying occurs anywhere in school time, as stated in many other studies, much of the instances of cyberbullying happen within the school environment.

Solutions

Many researchers, teachers, parents concern such kinds of things like internet safety. It will be useful to introduce parents, educators, teachers with the necessary knowledge about new technologies.

The first solution is school administration should create standards and strategies with the use of technologies, providing supervision, and monitoring students' use of computers, cell phones in schools. Many schools will benefit from implementing, including strictly enforcing specific rules in schools regarding the usage of cellphones, computers, gadgets as well as the internet.

The next approach is parental supervision, since cyberbullying often happens at home, plays critical roles, and central. Mason (2008) stated that over 30% of adolescents use the web for 4 hours or over a day, and over 50% of them recorded inadequate parental oversight in those hours. McQuade (2009) stated how 73 percent of parents, adolescents recorded setting Rules today about their children. Nevertheless, on the online operation, 37 percent of children reported being given no rules by their parents. Similarly, Rosen (2007) showed that while most parents showed restrictions on the usage of the internet for their kids, they are also not actively managing those restrictions. So, parents don't know what their children do in the social network when they are sitting on the internet.

Chapter 5 – Conclusion

This study paper has examined the impact of cyberbullying on the younger generation and protective steps against digital bullying. The goal of the present study has been to decide whatever kind of issues children/teenagers can experience and also to show possible ways to mitigate cyberbullying. The research showed that cyberbullying could usually lead to serious health issues; it is death, addiction, anxiety, lower self-esteem, minimal academic performance. The survey also found that classrooms must use policies to punish students against cyberbullying acts, teach students about cyber-ethics, as well as supervision of the stay at home parent remains essential.

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