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Citation

Gkiomisi A, Gkrizioti M, Gkiomisi A, Anastasilakis DA, Kardaras P. Indian J. Pediatr. 2016; 84(5): 364-368.

Affiliation

Clinic of Developmental and Social Pediatrics, 3rd Pediatric Department, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, K C Chaudhuri Foundation and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12098-016-2256-2

PMID

27957645

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the presence of cyberbullying among Greek students and the efficacy of proposed preventive interventions.

METHODS: Three types of high schools (private, experimental and public) with different politics on on-line aggression were enrolled. All students of the aforementioned schools were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire.

RESULTS: Around 62 % of the high school students experienced cyberbullying by electronic means, especially by cell phone, mostly the public school students (p 0.008). The bully was a stranger in more than 40 % of the cases. Over 60 % of the victims had not seeked help but dealt with the attack on their own. Only 20 % of the victims manifested sleep or eating disorders, physical/ psychological symptoms or changes in their social life as a consequence of the cyber-attack.

CONCLUSIONS: Cyberbullying is a usual phenomenon among high school students. The bully is frequently unacquainted to the victim. Most of the victims are not physically or psychologically affected by the cyber-attack and do not share the event with anyone. There was a slight difference in the response of the students to cyberbullying among the different school politics of on-line aggression.


Language: en

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