Violent Online Games Exposure and Cyberbullying/Victimization Among Adolescents

Cyberpsychology behav. soc. netw. (Print)

T. Lam Lawrence

Cheng Zaohuo

Liu XinMin

Acoso moral

Adolescent

Adolescente

Amas

Ciberespacio

Cluster

Computer games

Cyberespace

Cyberspace

Echantillonnage aléatoire

Game theory

Harcèlement moral

Hombre

Homme

Human

Internet

Jeu ordinateur

Juegos de computadora

Montón

Muestreo aleatorio

Policy

Politique

Política

Psychological harassment

Random sampling

Red social

Réseau social

Social network

Teoría juego

Théorie jeu

Victimisation

Victimización

Victimization

Victimologia

Victimologie

Victimology

Violence

Violencia

This population-based cross-sectional survey examined the association between exposure to violent online games and cyberbullying and victimization in adolescents recruited from two large cities utilizing a stratified two-stage random cluster sampling technique. Cyberbullying and victimization were assessed by the E-victimization and E-bullying scales validated in a previous study. Exposure to violent online games was measured by selfnomination of the degree of violent content in the games played. Results indicated that the majority (74.3 percent) of respondents did not experience any cyberbullying or victimization in the last 7 days before the survey, 14.4 percent reported to be victimized via cyberspace, 2.9 percent admitted that they had bullied others, and 8.4 percent reported to be both perpetrators- and- victims. One hundred and eighty seven (15.3 percent) considered games they were playing were of moderate to severe violence. Students who had been involved in cyberbullying as well as being victimized were two times as likely to have been exposed to violent online games, and nearly four times as likely for those involved in bullying others. Exposure to violent online games was associated with being a perpetrator as well as a perpetrator-and-victim of cyberbullying. Parents and clinicians need to be aware of the potential harm of these exposures. The policy implications of results were also discussed. (English)

16

3

159-165

2013

Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking (Print)

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