Understanding Adolescent Cyberbullies: Exploring Social Media Addiction and Psychological Factors
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A substantial number of adolescents in various countries have histories of cyberbullying perpetration, cyberbullying victimization, or both. Research examining characteristics of cyberbullies is growing, yet more empirical studies are needed utilizing North American adolescent samples. This article describes a cross-sectional study in which we surveyed a national sample of adolescents (N = 428) in the United States to examine the relationships between social media addiction, general mattering, school connectedness, depression/anxiety, and cyberbullying perpetration. Our results indicated that higher social media addiction scores, more hours spent online, and identifying as male significantly predicted cyberbullying perpetration. Thus, those who spend more time online, have elevated social media addiction scores, and identify as male may be at higher risk for committing acts of cyberbullying. We provided implications of these findings for clinicians working with adolescent clients.
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Social media was identified as a complex and multifaceted tool, offering opportunities for connection, education, and identity exploration, while also highlighting concerns relating to misinformation, social comparison, online victimisation and highly immersive or difficult-to-disengage-from forms of engagement.
“Consistent with previous research (e.g., [4]), social media was identifed as a complex and multifaceted tool, ofering opportunities for connection, education, and identity exploration [19, 55, 56], while also highlighting concerns relating to misinformation, social comparison, online victimisation and highly immersive or difcult-to-disengage-from forms of engagement [24, 25, 28, 57].”
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- Authors
- Giordano, A. L., Prosek, E. A., & Watson, J. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (US)
- Corresponding author
- Giordano, Amanda L.
- Venue
- Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-01-02
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 42-55
- ISSN
- 2372-7810 (ISSN-L)
- 2372-7829
- OpenAlex
- W3128196125
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 7.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Keywords
- cyberbullying perpetration, social media addiction, adolescents, school connectedness, depression, anxiety, online time, gender differences, risk factors
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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