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Article Dans Une Revue Computers in Human Behavior Année : 2015

Does Cyberbullying overlap with school bullying when taking modality of involvement into account?

Violaine Kubiszewski
  • Fonction : Auteur
Roger Fontaine
  • Fonction : Auteur
Catherine Potard

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Education professionals and researchers are concerned by school bullying and cyberbullying because of its repercussions on students’ health and the school climate. However, only a few studies investigating the impact of school versus cyberbullying have systematically explored whether student victims and perpetrators are involved in school bullying only, cyberbullying only, or both. The aim of the present study was thus to examine the possible overlap, as well as the similarities and/or differences, between these two forms of bullying when taking modality of involvement into account. Individual interviews were conducted with 1422 junior high- and high-school students (girls = 43%, boys = 57%, mean age = 14.3 ± 2.7 years). Results showed that cyberbullying and school bullying overlapped very little. The majority of students involved in cyberbullying were not simultaneously involved in school bullying. Moreover, results indicated that psychosocial problems (psychological distress, social disintegration, general aggression) varied according to the form of bullying. Victims of school bullying had greater internalizing problems than cybervictims, while school bullies were more aggressive than cyberbullies. Given the sizable proportion of adolescents involved in bullying (school and cyber) and its significant relationship with mental health, the issue warrants serious attention from school and public health authorities.

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Psychologie
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hal-03063213 , version 1 (14-12-2020)

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Violaine Kubiszewski, Roger Fontaine, Catherine Potard, Laurent Auzoult-Chagnault. Does Cyberbullying overlap with school bullying when taking modality of involvement into account?. Computers in Human Behavior, 2015, 43, pp.49-57. ⟨10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.049⟩. ⟨hal-03063213⟩
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