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Badgrlz? Exploring Sex Differences in Cyberbullying Behaviors

Nadine M. Connell, Natalie Schell‐Busey, Allison N. Pearce, Pamela Negro

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice · 2013

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Summary

Research on bullying suggests that traditional bullying is gendered such that males participate in physical acts while females engage in relational attacks, but the nature of the relationship between gender and cyberbullying is less defined. Because the Internet is an ideal environment for the relational forms of bullying favored by females, we hypothesize that females engage in more cyberbullying than males. We also hypothesize that there are gender differences in predictors of cyberbullying and cybervictimization. In order to better understand these gender dynamics, we examine self-reported bullying and victimization experiences in a sample of 3,867 middle school students in a northeastern state. Contrary to recent findings, our results show support for the gendered nature of cyberbullyi

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1177/1541204013503889
Catalogue ID
SNmojj22w1-pgffcv
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