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Running head: DISCUSSION ON CYBER-BULLYING IN ADOLESCENTS 1

DISCUSSION ON CYBER-BULLYING IN ADOLESCENTS 2

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Examine how social psychology theories and research explain the dynamics of cyberbullying among adolescents.

The social psychological theory is considered the scientific study of how individual thoughts, beliefs, goals, intention, and feelings are built within the social context, which is imagined or the actual interactions with other people. These theories include the applied social psychological theory explains that the various observed human behaviors are related to the social behavior they get to experience. This explains the dynamics of research on the cyberbullying experienced by an adolescent that originates from the people they interact with. This brings about verbal dynamics, physical dynamics, and many more (Chadee, 2011).

Another theory is the cognitive dissonance theory which explains that the various beliefs found of some of the adolescents are conflicting. Thus, when the inconsistency exists between the behaviors and the attitude soft e adolescents, there must be a change to eliminate the dissonance. Bullying is considered the aggressive kinds of intentional behaviors and is often repeatedly directed to a specific person who has lesser power than the aggressor. They are different types of cyber-bullying, including physical, social, verbal, sexual, and many more amongst the youths (Olivas, 2019).

Post an explanation of what is rewarding the adolescent-aged cyberbullying behavior.

The most rewarding thing that the adolescent is experiencing from cyberbullying is the psychological problems which are the negative rewards they get from it. This includes poor academic performance related to how one performs in class and even in talking. Another effect is low self-esteem, leading to other related diseases such as depression and makes one not interact with fellow teens. It also causes the anxiety and depression effects that are the side effects of social exclusion, which makes teens not develop fully as expected due to low interaction with fellow age mates. It also leads to school, phobias which are the results associated with being bullied by fellow teens, thus not having the morale of schooling as it's supposed to be for the teens. It should be noted that during these unpreceded days, the young adolescents are much-experiencing effects of cyberbullying due to having much time of not being busy. This makes them have access to the online platforms, thus getting a lot of time to watch even pornographic materials. Parents are responsible for ensuring their teen's tie management is done well to avoid the teens having a humble time to access the online platforms where these cyber-bullying activities occur (Teasley, 2014).

References

Chadee, D. (2011). Theories in social psychology. John Wiley & Sons.

Olivas, R. N. (2019). Family, bullying and cyberbullying. MDPI.

Teasley, M. (2014). Cyberbullying, youth behavior and society. Journal of Child and Adolescent Behaviour, 02(01).  https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4494.1000119