Bullying Study from Education Review

In the Education Review publication in Australia, they recently had the results from a bullying study. What they found by the lead researcher, Associate Professor Marilyn Campbell, was victims of cyber-bullying reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than children who had been bullied face-to-face. “When we measured their social problems, children who had been cyber-bullied had much higher scores than victims of traditional bullying but they didn’t see it themselves,” Campbell said.  About 30 percent of victims were bullied face-to-face and while 15 percent were cyber-bullied.  And to make matters even worst of these kids, 7.5 percent stated they were victims of both types of bullying. This leads to the element that kids who are bullied at school then go home and get bullied online and then back at school again. It is a horrible cycle for these kids. 

Also, in this study, they looked into how many children were actually doing the bullying and what they thought about the bullying. The study showed about 12 percent of kids bullied face-to-face and 8 percent cyber-bullied. And an astonishing three quarters of the wrongdoers of cyber-bullying thought their behavior was not harsh and with no impact on the victims. The wrongdoers stated they were doing it as fun and some even thought the victims deserved it.