RT Journal Article
T1 Bullying, Cyberbullying and the Overlap: What Does Age Have to Do with It?
A1 Pichel Mira, Rafael
A1 Foody, Mairéad
A1 O’Higgins-Norman, James
A1 Sanmartín Feijóo, Sandra
A1 Varela Mallou, Jesús
A1 Rial Boubeta, Antonio
K1 School bullying
K1 Cyberbullying
K1 Childhood
K1 Adolescence
K1 Age
K1 Overlap
AB School bullying and cyberbullying represent the most common forms of victimization during childhood and adolescence in many countries across the globe. Although they can be studied as distinct phenomena with their own defining characteristics, there is evidence to suggest that they are related and often co-occur. The present research aimed to estimate the rates of school bullying and cyberbullying, studied their evolution by age, and analyzed any possible overlap between the two. An empirical study was carried out with a large sample of children and adolescents in Galicia, Spain (N = 2083), where 10–17 year olds were presented with The European Bullying Intervention Project Questionnaire and European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire. School bullying was found to be more prevalent than cyberbullying, with 25.1% involved as victims and 14.3% as bully-victims, while the cyberbullying rates were 9.4% for victims and 5.8% for bully-victims. Perpetration rates were similar for school and cyberbullying (4.4% and 4.3% respectively). The overlap between both phenomena adds to the evidence for a whole-community approach to tackling all types of bullying and victimization experiences, as opposed to each in silo. The clear age differences in bullying behaviours also suggest the appropriateness of tailoring anti-bullying programs to target specific age groups
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26790
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26790
LA eng
NO Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8527; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158527
NO This study is part of a larger research project funded by the Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas under Grant 2018/008. R.P. and S.F. are funded by the Government of Galicia under grant “Programa de axudas á etapa predoutoral”. M.F. is funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713279
DS Minerva
RD 3 may 2026