Cyberbullying: The Discriminant Factors Among Cyberbullies, Cybervictims, and Cyberbully-Victims in a Czech Adolescent Sample

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Authors

BAYRAKTAR Fatih MACHÁČKOVÁ Hana DĚDKOVÁ Lenka ČERNÁ Alena ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Anna

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Interpersonal Violence
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25411234
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260514555006
Field Psychology
Keywords Internet and abuse; bullying; media and violence
Description Although the research on cyberbullying has increased dramatically in recent years, still little is known about how cyberbullying participant groups (i.e., cyberbullies, cybervictims, and cyberbully-victims) differ from one another. This study aims to discriminate between these groups at an individual and relational level by controlling for age and gender. Self-control, offline aggression, and self-esteem are analyzed as individual-level variables. Parental attachment and peer rejection are involved as relational-level variables. A total of 2,092 Czech adolescents aged 12 to 18 were enrolled from a random sample of 34 primary and secondary schools located in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic. Discriminant function analyses indicated that the participant groups are discriminated by two functions. The first function increases the separation between cyberbullies and cyberbully-victims from cybervictims, indicating that cyberbullies and cyberbully-victims are similar to each other in terms of low self-control, offline aggression, and gender, and have higher scores on measures of low self-esteem and offline aggression. However, cyberbully-victims had the highest scores on these measures. The second function discriminates between all three groups, which indicates that those variables included in the second function (i.e., parental attachment, peer rejection, self-esteem, and age) distinguish all three involved groups.
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