Tag: Cyberbullying
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Social Dominance, Peer Victimization
Previous studies have shown social dominance and peer victimization to be on opposite ends of the spectrum in understanding the success and acceptability in the use of aggression. The current findings build upon these studies by showing that these same characteristics also play a role in understanding the link between relational aggression and peer liking.…
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Bullying is Bullying
Cyber/e/online whatever, it’s the same thing and some new research out of the US suggests that there are a few things that can be done to help cope with the problem. Looking at cognitive and behavioral measures, the research identified: self-efficacy for avoiding self-blame victim-role disengagement self-efficacy self-efficacy for proactive behavior self-efficacy for avoiding aggressive…
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The wrong and the horrible
I think one would have to be living under a rock, or listening to nothing by satellite (more on that later… it’s been bubbling in my head for a while, but this is one of the reasons why it is bad) or top40 radio not to have heard about this atrocity in BC. Now, while social…
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US Lawmakers and Cyber Bullying
It seems that cyberbullying legislation is going to take a while to move through the US. Wired has a story today on the bill that proposes to target “Serious, repeated hostile communications made with the intent to harm“. This seems to be a noble cause, but obviously it can not be that simple. The case…
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Cyberbullying isn’t only intrademographic
TR has a story of an adult that got involved in bullying a child. I’m sure it’s not the first time that a parent has put their nose into a child’s affairs, but where as in the past it might have only been a parent being an accessory (which adult would be able to really…