More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey suggests.
Nearly one in six adolescents have experienced cyberbullying, an international study has found.
More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.
A study, which looked at bullying among adolescents from 44 countries and regions, including England, Wales and Scotland, found 15% reported being cyberbullied at least once or twice in the past couple of months.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, of more than 279,000 people aged 11, 13 and 15 years old in 2021/22, suggests the proportion of adolescents who reported being cyberbullied has increased since 2018, from 12% to 15% for boys and 13% to 16% for girls.
It also depends on your definition of cyberbullying. Is a mean comment under one or two posts already enough? Does it have to be consistent? Does it have to be from the same Person?
I don’t want to undersell Cyberbullying, it definitely is a problem, but a lot of these surveys have vague questions that can be interpreted in massively different ways, both from the person that answers them and from the researchers that formulated them.