• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.1-16
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate adolescents' individual and microsystem variables including relationships with parents and friends affecting adolescents' experiences of mobile social networking site (SNS) cyberbullying based on the human ecological perspective. Data came from 344 middle school students who lived with both their parents in the Seoul and Gyunggi areas. A multiple regression analysis showed that adolescents' characteristics, relationships with parents, and friends were associated with their experiences of mobile SNS cyberbullying. These findings suggest that good relationships with parents could be protective factors for adolescents to reduce mobile SNS cyberbullying. However, adolescents' characteristics including aggression, depression, and delinquent peers were positively associated with adolescents' experiences of mobile SNS cyberbullying. This study highlights that various environments are closely related to adolescent development.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.59-72
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• 2016

We examined the relationship between the extent of Facebook usage and social well-being with consideration of cyberbullying involvement using a person-oriented approach. Survey data were collected from a sample of 312 secondary students from Grades 7 and 8 in Hong Kong. Levels of cyberbullying involvement, Facebook usage and perceived social support were investigated. Participants were classified into three clusters based on the different levels of Facebook usage and cyberbullying victimization through cluster analyses (i.e., frequent Facebook user/noncyberbullied victim, frequent Facebook user/cyberbullied victim, and uninvolved). Our results showed that frequent Facebook users who are cyberbullied tend to engage in cyberbullying perpetration significantly more than the frequent Facebook users who are not cyberbullied, even when the latter reported higher Facebook usage. This result provides some support for the idea that cyberbullying victimization has additional value on top of the level of usage in explaining one's participation in cyberbullying perpetration. As expected, frequent Facebook users who were not cyberbullied reported the highest perceived social support among the three groups. What is even more interesting is the equal level of perceived social support found between the cyberbullied victims and the uninvolved. Our results suggest that, although limiting adolescents' Internet use might reduce their risks of being involved in cyberbullying, it might also take away the potential benefits they could get from interacting with the online community. Benefits of using the person-oriented approach in the study of cyberbullying are discussed.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.65-74
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to gain insights into empathy, cyberbullying, and cybervictimization among Filipino adolescents. Methods: The participants were 168 junior high school students in the 7th to 10th grades at a public high school in Cavite Province, Philippines. Data were collected on demographic characteristics, the Basic Empathy Scale, and Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory-II scores. The data were analyzed in SPSS using descriptive statistics (frequency and mean), the independent t-test, bivariate correlation, and one-way analysis of variance. Results: The degree of empathy did not show a statistically significant relationship with cyberbullying (r=-.07, p=.359) but did show a significant relationship with cybervictimization (r=.18, p=.025). Furthermore, cyberbullying had a statistically significant association with cybervictimization (r=.60, p<.001). Conclusion: Although empathy does not necessarily affect cyberbullying, higher levels of empathy were found among cyberbullying victims. However, an alarming result of this study is the possibility that victims may become cyberbullies. Therefore, we should highlight empathy as part of efforts to prevent cyberbullying and to solve various cyber-related problems. Since cyberbullying and cybervictimization are closely related, it is important to focus on this relationship and to make multilateral efforts to ensure that cyberbullying does not lead to other negative issues.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.477-485
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to verify the moderating effect of school life satisfaction in the relationship between cyberbullying victimization and suicidal ideation of adolescents. In this study, 1244 middle and high school students' data from the 2017 Children's and Youth Human Rights Survey conducted by the Korea Youth Policy Institute were used. The researcher used frequency analysis, independent sample T-test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation analysis and regression analysis using IBM SPSS statistics 20.0 for Windows. Results of the study are as follows: First, the cyberbullying victimization experience was higher in boys than girls, and suicidal ideation were more likely in girls than boys. Second, the cyberbullying victimization and school life satisfaction had a weak negative correlation, school life satisfaction and suicidal ideation had a negative correlation. And suicidal ideation had a weak positive correlation. Third, this study found that school life satisfaction have a moderating effect in the relationship between cyberbullying victimization and suicidal ideation. Based on the results of the study, the implications of suicide prevention programs for adolescents who have experienced cyberbullying victims and plans to activate them were proposed. This study is hoped to be used as a basis for the prevention of suicide in adolescents.

• Human Ecology Research
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.61-74
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• 2020

This study examined the effects of moral disengagement (cognitive restructuring and blaming the victim) and self-control on cyberbullying perpetration and investigated if self-control moderated the relationship between moral disengagement (cognitive restructuring and blaming the victim) and cyberbullying perpetration. Participants in the study consisted of 551 middle school students (273 boys and 278 girls) from five middle schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. Cyberbullying perpetration, moral disengagement and self-control were measured using the Bullying/Victimization Questionnaire, the Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale, and the Self-Control Scale for children and adolescents. Data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and a hierarchical regression analysis. The moderating effect of self-control was analyzed using procedures proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986). The results indicated that both levels of cognitive restructuring and blaming the victim increased cyberbullying perpetration whereas the level of self-control decreased cyberbullying perpetration. In addition, self-control moderated the effect of cognitive restructuring on cyberbullying perpetration. The influence of cognitive restructuring on cyberbullying perpetration was greater when the level of self-control was low, compared to when it was high.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.192-198
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• 2023

Cyberbullying is a growing problem among adolescents and can have serious psychological and emotional consequences for the victims. In recent years, machine learning techniques have emerged as promising approach for detecting instances of cyberbullying in online communication. This research paper focuses on developing a machine learning models that are able to detect cyberbullying including support vector machines, naïve bayes, and random forests. The study uses a dataset of real-world examples of cyberbullying collected from Twitter and extracts features that represents the ideational metafunction, then evaluates the performance of each algorithm before and after considering the theory of systemic functional linguistics in terms of precision, recall, and F1-score. The result indicates that all three algorithms are effective at detecting cyberbullying with 92% for naïve bayes and an accuracy of 93% for both SVM and random forests. However, the study also highlights the challenges of accurately detecting cyberbullying, particularly given the nuanced and context-dependent nature of online communication. This paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for future research and the development of practical tool for cyberbullying prevention and intervention.

• Studies on Life and Culture
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• v.52
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• pp.249-272
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• 2019

This study examined the moderating effects of closed communication between parents and children on the relationship between children's depression and cyberbullying behaviors. The research model was designed to classify the controlled variable, parent-child communication, as father-child, mother-child, and parents-child. As a result of the analysis, we confirmed the moderating effects of all three parent-child communication on cyberbullying behavior. In case, the degree of closed communication between parents and children is low, it buffers the positive effect of depression on cyberbullying behavior. These moderating effects were found to have a greater impact on adolescent depression. Based on the findings, this study suggests several practical ways of intervention to mitigate cyberbullying behaviors of adolescents.

• Studies on Life and Culture
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• v.52
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• pp.225-248
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• 2019

This study examines the variables affecting the cyberbullying of adolescents. The purpose of this study is to analyze the difference of variables that personal, domestic environmental, school environment, digital media factors, and more specifically, gender differences. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, we used 811 online survey data of youths with smart phones nationwide. The results of technical statistics, T-test, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis can be summarized as follows. First, the descriptive statistics showed that male cyberbullying scores were higher than female students, and t-test results were statistically significant. Second, multiple regression analysis including gender variables showed that male cyberbullying was higher than female students. Finally, multiple regression analysis of male and female students showed that the variables affecting the cyberbullying of boys and girls were somewhat different. The common causative variables were 'parental stress', 'peer attachment', and 'game addiction'. The direction was statistically significant (+) direction. The causes of 'depression', 'aggression', and 'SNS addiction' were different among males and females were 'academic stresses', suggesting that there are differences in cyberbullying factors according to gender.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.169-174
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• 2024

Cyberviolence is a new form of violence encompassing any online activity that results in harm to the psychological, emotional, financial, or physical well-being of an individual or group. These adverse activities often lead to serious offline and long-lasting negative impact, especially on children and adolescents whose development has not matured sufficiently. Therefore, it is more important for mental health professionals to be well informed about the rapidly evolving forms of cyberviolence and its risks and to respond appropriately. This article provides an overview of the concept and unique features of cyberviolence trauma in minors in South Korea while also examining ongoing efforts to explore and implement effective treatment programs. Cyberbullying and digital sexual abuse, the most common forms of cyberviolence experienced by minors in South Korea, are explored in detail. Additionally, this review proposes directions for future research and the efforts that clinicians should focus on.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.597-625
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• 2022

This study aimed to examine the hypothesis that intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental self-awareness would alleviate the association between sSchadenfreude and cyberbullying. 300 middle and high school students answered survey questionnaires including sSchadenfreude, cyberbullying behavior, (intrapersonal. interpersonal, and environmental) self-awareness, depression, and anxiety. After controlling depression and anxiety, theThe results reveal that first, Schadenfreude predicts cyberbullying behavior, so those who have a high level of Schadenfreude commit more online cyberbullying behavior. Second, intrapersonal and interpersonal self-awareness moderated the association between schadenfreude and cyberbullying, and those who were above average on intrapersonal and interpersonal self-awareness were more liable to commit cyberbullying, but those below average did not show a significant moderation effect. Third, whereas environmental self-awareness did not show a significant moderation effect. Specifically, those who know well what they think and do and what they look like in interpersonal relationships perpetrate more cyberbullying when their schadenfreude was high. However, knowing well about what was happening around them was not related to the likelihood of schadenfreude that lead to cyberbullying. The results of this study revealed that Schadenfreude, which deals with emotions on expecting the misfortune of others and the possibility of having antisocial characteristics, lead to actual cyberbullying behaviors of adolescents. Also, this study identified that intrapersonal and interpersonal self-awareness are harmful in causing cyberbullying in those with high Schadenfreude. Finally, the implication and the limitation of this study were discussed.