Lecture 8. Cyberbullying

Question 1

What are the differences between cyberbullying and traditional bullying?

Answer 1

5 differences

Question 2

What are the four important characteristics of (cyber)bullying? Kowalski 2004: Meyers & Cowie 2019

Answer 2

1. intention to harm others
2. power imbalance
3. repetition
4. use of digital or electronic device

Question 3

Why do we find so many different results on (cyber) bullying? Kowalski, 2014 Meyers & Cowie 2019

Answer 3

Varying In definitions of cyberbullying
Varying in measurements of cyberbullying
varying in samples in studies

limitations:
lack of adoption existing theories
no casual effects
mediator and mediation studies missing

Question 4

What is the most important risk factor for becoming a bully?

Answer 4

Cyber victimization

Question 5

What are the consequences of victimization?

Answer 5

1. academic problems
2. not feeling safe
3. physiological problems and negative moods

Question 6

What is the role of media use in cyber bullying? And explains this model..

Answer 6

• Victim offender cycle (Meyers and cowie 2014).
  You go online because you want to get a relief of the emotions you feel, you will seek for revanche and that is when you shoot other players

Question 7

What is the cyclic process model in cyberbullying by den Hamer (2014)

Answer 7

anger and frustration leads to being exposed to anger/anti-social content which lead to cyber bullying behavior

Question 8

What are the coping strategies for victims?

Answer 8

1. supportive environment

2. emotional intelligence: emotion recognition, understanding, emotion regulation

Question 9

The hypothesis of den Hamer was confirmed, what did they found?

Answer 9

Negative strategies do increase the risk of cyber bullying effects, there wasn’t evidence found for positive regulations.