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Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies, cyberbullying has emerged as a threat to adolescents. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and correlates among profiles of traditional bullying, cyberbullying, and combined bullying among Taiwanese hig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8116-z |
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author | Wang, Chia-Wen Musumari, Patou Masika Techasrivichien, Teeranee Suguimoto, S. Pilar Tateyama, Yukiko Chan, Chang-Chuan Ono-Kihara, Masako Kihara, Masahiro Nakayama, Takeo |
author_facet | Wang, Chia-Wen Musumari, Patou Masika Techasrivichien, Teeranee Suguimoto, S. Pilar Tateyama, Yukiko Chan, Chang-Chuan Ono-Kihara, Masako Kihara, Masahiro Nakayama, Takeo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies, cyberbullying has emerged as a threat to adolescents. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and correlates among profiles of traditional bullying, cyberbullying, and combined bullying among Taiwanese high school students. METHODS: This cross-sectional study employed two-stage cluster sampling in Taipei City, Taiwan. In total, 2028 high school students completed an anonymous questionnaire between March and May 2018. Nominal logistic regression analysis was performed, adjusting for clustering, to examine the correlates of each type-role category of bullying. RESULTS: The prevalence rates of cyberbullying, traditional bullying, and combined bullying were 9.9, 13.3, and 9.4%, respectively, indicating that one-third of students were involved in one of these types of bullying; 48.7% of those involved in cyberbullying also experienced traditional bullying, and 41.5% of those involved in traditional bullying also experienced cyberbullying. In any type of bullying, not only being a victim but also being a bully/bully-victim was significantly associated with at least one mental health problem (serious psychological distress, self-harm, or suicidal ideation), except in the case of cyberbullying bullies/bully-victims. Internet abuse and alcohol use were more concentrated among bullies/bully-victims than victims for all types of bullying, and a similar trend was observed among types of schools and school climates, suggesting that specific behavioural circumstances or school backgrounds are associated with bullying perpetration. CONCLUSIONS: Bullying is a prevalent and complex phenomenon among adolescents in Taiwan, where traditional bullying and cyberbullying frequently overlap and are likely to occur against specific backgrounds. These facts should be taken into account in future bullying prevention and support programmes in Taiwan. |
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spelling | pubmed-69376252019-12-31 Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study Wang, Chia-Wen Musumari, Patou Masika Techasrivichien, Teeranee Suguimoto, S. Pilar Tateyama, Yukiko Chan, Chang-Chuan Ono-Kihara, Masako Kihara, Masahiro Nakayama, Takeo BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies, cyberbullying has emerged as a threat to adolescents. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and correlates among profiles of traditional bullying, cyberbullying, and combined bullying among Taiwanese high school students. METHODS: This cross-sectional study employed two-stage cluster sampling in Taipei City, Taiwan. In total, 2028 high school students completed an anonymous questionnaire between March and May 2018. Nominal logistic regression analysis was performed, adjusting for clustering, to examine the correlates of each type-role category of bullying. RESULTS: The prevalence rates of cyberbullying, traditional bullying, and combined bullying were 9.9, 13.3, and 9.4%, respectively, indicating that one-third of students were involved in one of these types of bullying; 48.7% of those involved in cyberbullying also experienced traditional bullying, and 41.5% of those involved in traditional bullying also experienced cyberbullying. In any type of bullying, not only being a victim but also being a bully/bully-victim was significantly associated with at least one mental health problem (serious psychological distress, self-harm, or suicidal ideation), except in the case of cyberbullying bullies/bully-victims. Internet abuse and alcohol use were more concentrated among bullies/bully-victims than victims for all types of bullying, and a similar trend was observed among types of schools and school climates, suggesting that specific behavioural circumstances or school backgrounds are associated with bullying perpetration. CONCLUSIONS: Bullying is a prevalent and complex phenomenon among adolescents in Taiwan, where traditional bullying and cyberbullying frequently overlap and are likely to occur against specific backgrounds. These facts should be taken into account in future bullying prevention and support programmes in Taiwan. BioMed Central 2019-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6937625/ /pubmed/31888598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8116-z Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Chia-Wen Musumari, Patou Masika Techasrivichien, Teeranee Suguimoto, S. Pilar Tateyama, Yukiko Chan, Chang-Chuan Ono-Kihara, Masako Kihara, Masahiro Nakayama, Takeo Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
title | Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among Taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | overlap of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and correlates of bullying among taiwanese adolescents: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8116-z |
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