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Associations among Different Internet Access Time, Gender and Cyberbullying Behaviors in Taiwan’s Adolescents

With the increasing convenience of social networking sites and their interconnectedness with human interaction, verbal and image bullying have turned digital, making cyberbullying a new form of bullying attracting the attention of researchers, social workers, and schools. This study focuses on the s...

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Autores principales: Chao, Cheng-Min, Yu, Tai-Kuei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28713309
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01104
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description With the increasing convenience of social networking sites and their interconnectedness with human interaction, verbal and image bullying have turned digital, making cyberbullying a new form of bullying attracting the attention of researchers, social workers, and schools. This study focuses on the status quo of attitude toward cyberbullying and cyberbullying behavior, explores associations of attitude toward behavior on cyberbullying behavior in gender and different internet access times. In a cross-sectional survey, adolescents were surveyed through self-report questionnaires, 13,864 respondents were received among 150 high schools in Taiwan. Statistical analyses were performed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The study revealed that attitude toward cyberbullying has a direct effect on cyberbullying behavior; among the greatest direct impact were when students use the Internet during the time frame 10:00–14:00. Parents and schoolteachers pay special attention to students using the Internet during this time frame 10:00–14:00 and give guidance, express care, and help those being bullied to communicate and use the Internet in a correct manner. Among genders, male student attitude toward behavior has a greater effect than those of female students. Both male and female students know what cyberbullying is and have witnessed, heard of, or personally encountered cyberbullying behavior. We recommend students talk to parents or teachers or other people who care to reduce the negative effects of cyberbullying. We hopeful that the conceptualization model presented in this study serves as an activator for researches on attitude toward cyberbullying and cyberbullying behavior, and serves a guide and a call to attract more researches in this area.
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spelling pubmed-54918372017-07-14 Associations among Different Internet Access Time, Gender and Cyberbullying Behaviors in Taiwan’s Adolescents Chao, Cheng-Min Yu, Tai-Kuei Front Psychol Psychology With the increasing convenience of social networking sites and their interconnectedness with human interaction, verbal and image bullying have turned digital, making cyberbullying a new form of bullying attracting the attention of researchers, social workers, and schools. This study focuses on the status quo of attitude toward cyberbullying and cyberbullying behavior, explores associations of attitude toward behavior on cyberbullying behavior in gender and different internet access times. In a cross-sectional survey, adolescents were surveyed through self-report questionnaires, 13,864 respondents were received among 150 high schools in Taiwan. Statistical analyses were performed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The study revealed that attitude toward cyberbullying has a direct effect on cyberbullying behavior; among the greatest direct impact were when students use the Internet during the time frame 10:00–14:00. Parents and schoolteachers pay special attention to students using the Internet during this time frame 10:00–14:00 and give guidance, express care, and help those being bullied to communicate and use the Internet in a correct manner. Among genders, male student attitude toward behavior has a greater effect than those of female students. Both male and female students know what cyberbullying is and have witnessed, heard of, or personally encountered cyberbullying behavior. We recommend students talk to parents or teachers or other people who care to reduce the negative effects of cyberbullying. We hopeful that the conceptualization model presented in this study serves as an activator for researches on attitude toward cyberbullying and cyberbullying behavior, and serves a guide and a call to attract more researches in this area. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5491837/ /pubmed/28713309 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01104 Text en Copyright © 2017 Chao and Yu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_fullStr Associations among Different Internet Access Time, Gender and Cyberbullying Behaviors in Taiwan’s Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Associations among Different Internet Access Time, Gender and Cyberbullying Behaviors in Taiwan’s Adolescents
title_short Associations among Different Internet Access Time, Gender and Cyberbullying Behaviors in Taiwan’s Adolescents
title_sort associations among different internet access time, gender and cyberbullying behaviors in taiwan’s adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28713309
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