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Ignat-Alina-Cristina-English-Final-Exam 2
Ignat-Alina-Cristina-English-Final-Exam 2
Facultatea de Psihologie
Final Exam
English subject
Exercise
1. B
2. A.
1
https://www.unicef.org/end-violence/how-to-stop-cyberbullying
2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying
Universitatea Ecologica Bucuresti
Facultatea de Psihologie
and teens know that so they may use the game as a tool to harass other people or just lash out and
let out their frustration3.
But can cyberbully, a non-physical form of bullying, be dangerous? Firstly we can say
nowhere is safe anymore. Since cyberharassment takes place electronically and even through text
messages, we can say that as people that are being bullied are not only bullied at school
anymore. They can be bullied in their home via chats and parents can even not notice it4 as it
mostly takes a mental toll on the recipient.
Research has shown that cyberbullying causes emotional and physiological damage to the
victims as well as psychosocial difficulties. There have been a few studies about the frequency
and media of cyberbullying on undergraduate students from the age of 9 to 18.
In a paper done by Pernille Due, MD and Bjørn Evald Holstein that the victims of this
type of bullying experience academic, interpersonal, family problems and even depression and
substance abuse. In this study, the authors used the Revised Cyber Bullying Survey (RCBS) to
measure incidence, frequency and medium and the College Adjustment Scales (CAS) to evaluate
the academic, social and emotional development.
A sizeable percentage, 57.4% (366), of the respondents reported being cyber bullied at
least once and 3.4% (22) reported being cyber bullied at least once a week. Regression analyses
on the effect of the cyberbullying variables on the CAS variables show that an increase in
cyberbullying by social networking and IM increases the academic problems variable. There is
also a marginal effect of cyberbullying by SMS on suicidal ideation, revealing that an increase in
cyberbullying by SMS causes a decrease in suicidal ideation5.
These are just some examples from the study and having academic or interpersonal or
family issues because of cyberbullying is bad enough, but to say cyberbullying has even the most
remote connection to suicidal ideation has to be the conclusion that yes, cyberharassment does
pose a threat to people, especially to teenagers who are starting to form their personality and find
their place and meaning in the world.
3
https://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/cyberbullying-online-gaming
4
https://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it
5
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018359474#fig2