Current perspectives: the impact of cyberbullying on adolescent health
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Cyberbullying has become an international public health concern among adolescents, and as such, it deserves further study. This paper reviews the current literature related to the effects of cyberbullying on adolescent health across multiple studies worldwide and provides directions for future research. A review of the evidence suggests that cyberbullying poses a threat to adolescents' health and well-being. A plethora of correlational studies have demonstrated a cogent relationship between adolescents' involvement in cyberbullying and negative health indices. Adolescents who are targeted via cyberbullying report increased depressive affect, anxiety, loneliness, suicidal behavior, and somatic symptoms. Perpetrators of cyberbullying are more likely to report increased substance use, aggression, and delinquent behaviors. Mediating/moderating processes have been found to influence the relationship between cyberbullying and adolescent health. More longitudinal work is needed to increase our understanding of the effects of cyberbullying on adolescent health over time. Prevention and intervention efforts related to reducing cyberbullying and its associated harms are discussed.
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Models trained with a small volume of data had performance less than 0.5 because they did not have enough samples of either cyberbullying or non-cyberbullying instances to learn strong patterns.
“The results of the models showed that they had uninterested performance, less than a performance ratio of 0.5, since they were trained with a small volume of data and did not have enough samples of either cyberbullying or non-cyberbullying instances to learn strong patterns [59,121].”
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- Authors
- Nixon, C.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Nixon, Charisse
- ORCID
- Nixon, Charisse
- Venue
- Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-08
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 143
- ISSN
- 1179-318X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4126576
- OpenAlex
- W2047438536
- Cited by
- 623
- References
- 126
- Citations by year
- 2026: 48 · 2025: 77 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 96 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Adolescent Health Medicine and Therapeutics (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Dove Medical Press (Taylor and Francis Group) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- 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, adolescent health, depressive symptoms, anxiety, loneliness, suicidal behavior, somatic symptoms, substance use, aggression, delinquency, mediating and moderating factors, cyberbullying prevention, cyberbullying intervention
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