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Traditional Victims and Cybervictims: Prevalence, Overlap, and Association with Mental Health Among Adolescents in Singapore
- Source :
- School Mental Health. 12:145-155
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- Traditional bullying typically occurs in schools and has been associated with a myriad of mental health problems. Recent evidence has indicated that cyberbullying may just be traditional bullying that is extended to the online world, but this possibility has received only limited study in Asian countries. This study explored the co-occurrence of traditional and cybervictimization and its association with mental health among 3319 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years in Singapore. Victims of bullying were categorized into mutually exclusive groups: traditional-only victims, cyber-only victims, or combined traditional and cybervictims. Results indicated that there were substantial overlaps between victimization in traditional bullying and cyberbullying and that traditional victimization was more prevalent than cybervictimization. Being a victim of either form of bullying (i.e., traditional-only or cyber-only victims) was associated with higher reports of internalizing and externalizing problems, and combined traditional and cybervictims reported the most internalizing problems. However, there were no significant differences in problem scores between traditional-only victims and cyber-only victims. The findings highlight the need to consider the extensive overlap between traditional and cybervictimization when investigating their differential association with adolescents’ mental health. Prevention and intervention efforts by school staff and mental health practitioners need to target both traditional bullying and cyberbullying in an integrated manner, and extra attention should be provided to adolescents who are victims of both forms of bullying.
- Subjects :
- education
05 social sciences
050301 education
social sciences
Mutually exclusive events
Mental health
humanities
Education
Differential association
Intervention (counseling)
behavior and behavior mechanisms
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Asian country
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Computer-mediated communication
Association (psychology)
Psychology
0503 education
health care economics and organizations
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18662633 and 18662625
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- School Mental Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6e8c0e52965782f9f3639226664104b1