Traditional Victims and Cybervictims: Prevalence, Overlap, and Association with Mental Health Among Adolescents in Singapore
| Autor: | Say How Ong, Jerrine Z. N. Khong, Daniel Fung, John M. Elliott, Yi Ren Tan, Andre Sourander |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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education
05 social sciences 050301 education social sciences Mutually exclusive events Mental health humanities Education Differential association Intervention (counseling) behavior and behavior mechanisms Developmental and Educational Psychology Asian country 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Computer-mediated communication Association (psychology) Psychology 0503 education health care economics and organizations 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | School Mental Health. 12:145-155 |
| ISSN: | 1866-2633 1866-2625 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12310-019-09337-x |
| Popis: | Traditional bullying typically occurs in schools and has been associated with a myriad of mental health problems. Recent evidence has indicated that cyberbullying may just be traditional bullying that is extended to the online world, but this possibility has received only limited study in Asian countries. This study explored the co-occurrence of traditional and cybervictimization and its association with mental health among 3319 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years in Singapore. Victims of bullying were categorized into mutually exclusive groups: traditional-only victims, cyber-only victims, or combined traditional and cybervictims. Results indicated that there were substantial overlaps between victimization in traditional bullying and cyberbullying and that traditional victimization was more prevalent than cybervictimization. Being a victim of either form of bullying (i.e., traditional-only or cyber-only victims) was associated with higher reports of internalizing and externalizing problems, and combined traditional and cybervictims reported the most internalizing problems. However, there were no significant differences in problem scores between traditional-only victims and cyber-only victims. The findings highlight the need to consider the extensive overlap between traditional and cybervictimization when investigating their differential association with adolescents’ mental health. Prevention and intervention efforts by school staff and mental health practitioners need to target both traditional bullying and cyberbullying in an integrated manner, and extra attention should be provided to adolescents who are victims of both forms of bullying. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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