Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration, connectedness, and monitoring of online activities: Protection from parental figures

Jennifer L. Doty; Amy L. Gower; Renee E. Sieving; Shari L. Plowman; Barbara J. McMorris

doi:10.3390/socsci7120265

Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration, connectedness, and monitoring of online activities: Protection from parental figures

Jennifer L. Doty, Amy L. Gower, Renee E. Sieving, Shari L. Plowman, Barbara J. McMorris

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Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration are associated with poor mental health outcomes for adolescents, including depressive symptoms, anxiety, and suicide ideation. Although most cyberbullying occurs at home, few interventions have been developed for parents of adolescents. We examined parental connectedness and parental online monitoring in relation to cyberbullying victimization and perpetration, with the goal of understanding how parents buffer young teens from involvement in cyberbullying. We leveraged data from an existing study involving three racially and ethnically diverse middle schools in a metropolitan area in the Midwest of the U.S. (n = 570). In the spring of sixth grade, students reported on cyberbullying involvement, parental connectedness, and parental monitoring. Greater parental connectedness was related to a lower likelihood of cyberbullying victimization and perpetration in logistic regression models. Parental monitoring of online activities was not related to cyberbullying victimization but was marginally related to a lower likelihood of cyberbullying perpetration. Results suggest that cyberbullying prevention programs should consider ways to foster parent/youth connectedness.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	265
Journal	Social Sciences
Volume	7
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci7120265
State	Published - Dec 12 2018

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Funding: This study was funded by Cooperative Agreement Number U48DP005011 (PI: Sieving) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. J.D. was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under National Research Service Award (NRSA) in Primary Medical Care, grant no. T32HP22239 (PI: Borowsky). This information or content and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by the CDC, HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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Adolescence
Cyberbullying
Parental monitoring
Parenting

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