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Bystanders’ behaviours and associated factors in cyberbullying

BACKGROUND: Cyberbullying is presently an alarming problem worldwide due to its impact on the emotions, behaviour and psychological well-being of not only the victims, but the bullies themselves and also bystanders. AIM: This study aims to investigate bystanders’ behaviours in cyberbullying and asso...

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Autores principales: Panumaporn, Jidapa, Hongsanguansri, Sirichai, Atsariyasing, Wanlop, Kiatrungrit, Komsan
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32524075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2019-100187
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author Panumaporn, Jidapa
Hongsanguansri, Sirichai
Atsariyasing, Wanlop
Kiatrungrit, Komsan
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Hongsanguansri, Sirichai
Atsariyasing, Wanlop
Kiatrungrit, Komsan
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description BACKGROUND: Cyberbullying is presently an alarming problem worldwide due to its impact on the emotions, behaviour and psychological well-being of not only the victims, but the bullies themselves and also bystanders. AIM: This study aims to investigate bystanders’ behaviours in cyberbullying and associated factors. METHODS: This research is a cross-sectional study of 578 secondary school students in Bangkok, Thailand. Simple random sampling was used to select four secondary schools. Data were collected through online questionnaires which included four sections: (1) demographic data, (2) bystanders’ behaviour in cyberbullying (cyberbullying experience and attitude towards cyberbullying were included in this section), (3) parental attachment (Inventory of Parent Attachment-Revised), and (4) self-esteem (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale-Revised). RESULTS: It was found that most occurrences of bystanders’ behaviour were: (a) willing to intervene or help victims (34.6%), (b) ignoring the cyberbullying (28%) or (c) partaking in cyberbullying (26.3%). Participants who either were victims of cyberbullying or knew of cyberbullying happening to friends or relatives and had high parental attachment would intervene more than those who never had such experiences. Participants who knew of cyberbullying happening to the general public had tendencies towards ignoring the cyberbullying. Participants who indicated they were bullies and had positive attitude towards joining in tended to partake in the cyberbullying more than those who were not. CONCLUSION: Factors relating to the behaviours of bystanders in cyberbullying should be further explored to provide support in the discouragement of ignoring and averting participation in cyberbullying. Secure parental attachment is one important factor that should be instilled during childhood years.
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spelling pubmed-72453682020-06-09 Bystanders’ behaviours and associated factors in cyberbullying Panumaporn, Jidapa Hongsanguansri, Sirichai Atsariyasing, Wanlop Kiatrungrit, Komsan Gen Psychiatr Original Research BACKGROUND: Cyberbullying is presently an alarming problem worldwide due to its impact on the emotions, behaviour and psychological well-being of not only the victims, but the bullies themselves and also bystanders. AIM: This study aims to investigate bystanders’ behaviours in cyberbullying and associated factors. METHODS: This research is a cross-sectional study of 578 secondary school students in Bangkok, Thailand. Simple random sampling was used to select four secondary schools. Data were collected through online questionnaires which included four sections: (1) demographic data, (2) bystanders’ behaviour in cyberbullying (cyberbullying experience and attitude towards cyberbullying were included in this section), (3) parental attachment (Inventory of Parent Attachment-Revised), and (4) self-esteem (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale-Revised). RESULTS: It was found that most occurrences of bystanders’ behaviour were: (a) willing to intervene or help victims (34.6%), (b) ignoring the cyberbullying (28%) or (c) partaking in cyberbullying (26.3%). Participants who either were victims of cyberbullying or knew of cyberbullying happening to friends or relatives and had high parental attachment would intervene more than those who never had such experiences. Participants who knew of cyberbullying happening to the general public had tendencies towards ignoring the cyberbullying. Participants who indicated they were bullies and had positive attitude towards joining in tended to partake in the cyberbullying more than those who were not. CONCLUSION: Factors relating to the behaviours of bystanders in cyberbullying should be further explored to provide support in the discouragement of ignoring and averting participation in cyberbullying. Secure parental attachment is one important factor that should be instilled during childhood years. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7245368/ /pubmed/32524075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2019-100187 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32524075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2019-100187
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