Cyber Bullying & School Bullying » Victims of cyberbullying http://www.bullyingtalk.com Bullying Facts and Prevention Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:50:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Who Are The Victims and Perpetrators of Cyberbullying? http://www.bullyingtalk.com/who-are-the-victims-and-perpetrators-of-cyberbullying/ http://www.bullyingtalk.com/who-are-the-victims-and-perpetrators-of-cyberbullying/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:33:18 +0000 admin http://www.bullyingtalk.com/?p=97 In a recent study of students in grades 6-8 (Kowalski et al., 2005):

  • Girls were about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying.
  • Of those students who had been cyberbullied relatively frequently (at least twice in the last couple of months):
    • 62% said that they had been cyberbullied by another student at school, and 46% had been cyberbullied by a friend.
    • 55% didn’t know who had cyberbullied them.
  • Of those students who admitted cyberbullying others relatively frequently:
    • 60% had cyberbullied another student at school, and 56% had cyberbullied a friend.

Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

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