TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Social media and cyber-bullying in autistic adults
JO  - Journal of autism and developmental disorders
A1  - Triantafyllopoulou, Paraskevi
A1  - Clark-Hughes, Charlotte
A1  - Langdon, Peter E.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Social media can lead to rejection, cyber-bullying victimisation, and cyber-aggression, and these experiences are not fully understood as experienced by autistic adults. To investigate this, 78 autistic adults completed self-report measures of social media use, cyber-bullying victimisation, cyber-aggression, and self-esteem. High levels of social media use were found to be associated with an increased risk of cyber-victimisation; whereas self-esteem was positively correlated with feelings of belonging to an online community and negatively correlated with feelings of being ignored on social network sites and chat rooms. Future studies are needed to further investigate the experience of cyber-bullying victimisation of autistic adults.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0162-3257
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05361-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -