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Electronic Bullying Essay

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Bullying has been happening for many years and still continues to happen. With all these technological devices around, it makes it easier for students and kids to get hold of devices and to use them inappropriately. According to the research, Electronic Bullying Among Middle School Students, the results show that in the last few months, 11% have been electronically bullied, 7% have bullied others and have also been bullied, 4% have electronically bullied others at least once and 78% have said that they had no experience with electronic bullying. This study also shows that the most common method for electronic bullying involves instant messaging, chat rooms and emails. Almost half the victims have also reported saying that they did not know …show more content…

The data was collected by giving the students to questionnaire, where one was the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire and the second one studied the students experience with electronic bullying. It is stated that the Olweus questionnaire is reliable and a “valid self-report measure of bullying that defines bullying for students and then assesses participants’ experiences with bullying at school, as victims and perpetrators” (Kowalski, Susan, 2007). The method that was used seems good to me. Students from grade 6 to 8 were chosen form these certain schools because the schools were going to start a bullying prevention program based on the results from the data from this study. Therefore, not only are data collected for this study, but the school also benefits from these results. The Olweus questionnaire explains what bullying is and then asks questions. This is good for students as some people think they are not doing anything wrong, but really, they are hurting someone’s feelings. This then allows students to realize if they had bullied or got bullied by someone without knowing. The analyses of the data were conducted by using a more conservative criterion as well as a Chi-square analysis. This study also has many charts and graphs looking at the results in different ways. The tables look at frequency of electronic bullying (at least once) by gender and grade, involvement in electronic

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