@article{ref1,
title="Brief report: The bystander effect in cyberbullying incidents",
journal="Journal of Adolescence",
year="2015",
author="Machackova, Hana and Dedkova, Lenka and Mezulanikova, Katerina",
volume="43",
number="",
pages="96-99",
abstract="This study examined the bystander effect in cyberbullying. Using self-reported data from 257 Czech respondents who had witnessed a cyberbullying attack, we tested whether provided help decreased with increased number of other bystanders. We controlled for several individual and contextual factors, including empathy, social self-efficacy, empathic response to victimization, and relationship to the victim. <br><br>RESULTS showed that participants tend to help the victims more in incidents with only one or two other bystanders. We also found that, as in the &quot;offline&quot; realm, bystander effect is not linear: no significant differences were found between incidents with a moderate number (3-10) and a larger number of total bystanders. Our findings, thus, provide support for the presence of the bystander effect in cyberbullying.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-1971",
doi="10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.010"
}