4. Traditional Bullying
Definition
Bullying has 3 main criteria:
§ intention to cause harm to the victim;
§ repetition of the abusive behaviour over a period of time;
§ imbalance of power between the victim and bully/bullies.
However, one particularly severe once off incident, which creates an
ongoing sense of intimidation can also be considered bullying.
O’Moore,M.(2010).Understanding School Bullying :A Guide to Parents and Teachers
(Veritas Publishing)
5. Systematic victmisation
§ Physical aggression
§ Verbal abuse
§ Gestures – often threatening
§ Exclusion / Relational
§ Extortion
Traditional Bullying most often
takes the form of…
6. Cyber-Bullying : A definition
“Cyber-bullying is an aggressive intentional
act carried out by a group or an individual,
using electronic forms of contact repeatedly
and over time against a victim who cannot
easily defend him or herself”
Peter Smith et.al.2008
8. Cyber-Bullying Tac1cs
• Harassment: e.g. sending insulting or threatening messages;
• Denigration: spreading rumours on the internet;
• Outing and trickery: revealing personal information about a person
which was shared in confidence;
• Exclusion: preventing a person from taking part in online social
activities, such as games or chats.
• Flaming or Trolling: sending insulting messages to inflame emotions of
others so that flame war is created in ‘public’ places such as a chat
room or a social networking site.
• Impersonation: Perpetrator uses the victim’s password to send or post
a hateful message / Perpetrator alters the victim’s profile
• Happy Slapping: Filming and forwarding direct physical assaults
which are degrading and humiliating to the victim.
• Sexting: Embarrasses victim by posting messages or images of a
sexual nature of victims or others e.g. the posting of victim’s breasts
caused suicide of Amanda in Canada.
Mona O’Moore,Understanding Cyberbullying:A Guide for Parents and Teachers, 2014
10. Girls
%
Boys
%
Total
%
Text-Messages
(In school)
4.1 5.1 5.8
Text-Messages
(Out of school)
10.3 10.6 10.4
Internet pos1ngs
(e.g. Bebo, You Tube, My Space,
Facebook & Nimble)
5.5 6.4 6.1
Camera or Video clips (taken) 12.2 17.2 15.8
Camera or Video clips (sent) 4.8 8.4 7.1
Telephone Calls 8.6 11.8 10.2
Emails 3.3 3.4 3.1
On-Line Chat Rooms 8.6 8.2 8.4
Instant Messages 7.8 9.2 8.5
Percentage of girls and boys reporting different forms of
cyber-bullying. O’Moore & Minton 2011
11. Differences between Cyber &
Traditional Bullying
• Cyber-bullying primarily indirect rather than face to face
and may be anonymous.
• Cyber-bullying has the poten1al to reach large
audiences.
• It has the poten1al to stay in cyber-space indefinitely.
• The aggressor does not see the vic1ms facial/emo1onal
reac1on in the first instance.
• The aaributes that make for imbalance of power differ.
• Cyberbullying allows perpetrators to reach their vic1ms
anywhere on the planet. No safe haven.
14. Source: EU Kids Online report
Livingstone,S.Haddon,L.,Gorzig,A.&
Olafson,K.(2011). Risks and safety
for children on the Internet: the
Ireland report, London, LSE.
Cyber- vic1ms Trad-vic1ms
Europe 6% 13%
Norway 8% 31%
Ireland 4% 23%
Russia 20% 20%
Australia 13% 16%
Data about bullying,
All forms & internet
15. Overlap between Traditional
and Cyber-Bullying (O’Moore, 2012)
• 71 % of cyber-victims were traditional victims
• 28.9% of cyber-victims were traditional bullies
• 67.4% of cyber-bullies were traditional bullies
• 32.0% of cyber-bullies were traditional victims
Supports Sourander et al (2010) study of 2215 Finnish teens aged 13-16 years
17. Effects of Bullying
§ Erosion of confidence and self-esteem
§ Feelings of frustration
§ Anger
§ Sadness, hopelessness
§ Loneliness and depression
§ Inability to concentrate at school/work
§ Not wanting to go to school/work
§ Staying offline
§ Distrustful of others
§ Self-harm 56% LGBTI (14-18yrs)
§ Suicidal thoughts 70% LGBTI (14-18yrs)
§ Suicide
Note: Being cyber & traditionally bullied increases risk of depression and loneliness.
(Gradinger et al, 2009; Bright et al, 2012)
18. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
It made me feel another way
It didn't bother me
Frightened
Angry
Upset
Girls
Boys
How Irish Cyber Vic1ms Feel When Targeted
(N = 564) O’Moore,2012
20. Cyber-Vic1ms: Most at risk are those who:
• Have poor peer rela1onships
• Have both emo1onal and behavioural difficul1es
• Spend more 1me online unsupervised
• Bully others face to face
Cyber Bullies: Most at risk are those who:
• Are impulsive
• Hold pro aggressive or pro bullying ahtudes
• Have low levels of empathy(both affec1ve and cogni1ve)
• Poor moral responsibility(moral disengagement)
• Seek popularity among peers through aggression
• Are bullied face to face
Cyber Bully-Vic1ms: Most at risk are those who:
• Share the psychiatric and psychosocial risk factors of cyberbullies and
vic1ms
M.O’Moore(2014).Understanding Cyberbullying: A guide for Parents and Teachers, Veritas Publishing.
24. Participant Roles in Bullying
DistribuFon in %
Perpetrators 8%
Assistants 7%
Reinforcers 20%
Vic1ms 12%
Defenders 17%
Outsiders 24%
Others 12%
Salmivalli et al. (1996) were
able to identify clear roles
within the process of bullying
for 88% of the school
children surveyed.
The results were replicated in
a study in German
comprehensive schools
(Schäfer & Korn, 2004).
Fellow pupils have an important role in the process of bullying. Therefore, it is sensible to
begin an intervention at the class level.
28. Coping strategies
(Riebel et al., 2009; Hoff & Mitchell, 2008)
• Social coping: seeking help from friends, family, teachers, peer
supporters;
• Aggressive coping: retalia1on, physical aaacks; verbal threats;
• Helpless coping: hopelessness; passive reac1ons, such as
avoidance; displays of emo1on;
• CogniFve coping: responding asser1vely, using reason; analyzing
the bullying episode and the bully’s behaviour.
• Technical coping: switching off the computer, changing email
address or nickname and only giving them to people that can be
trusted, and showing the messages to a grown-up.’
29. COST AcFon: Data CollecFon in 30 Countries
– Austria
– Australia
– Belgium
– Bulgaria
– Czech Republic
– Denmark
– Estonia
– Finland
– France
– Germany
– Greece
– Hungary
– Iceland
– Ireland
– Israel
– Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxemburg
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
36. Conclusions
• Cyber-bullying is a worldwide problem
• Imposes mental and physical ill health
• Undermines and dilutes the quality of educa1on
• Preven1on and Interven1on needs to be systemic and collabora1ve
• Poli1cal Ac1on needed at local, na1onal, interna1onal level
Framework for Preven1on and Interven1on to Include
Ø Mandatory Whole School Community Approach
Ø Training of Professionals----Teachers & Health Care
Ø Media Campaign
Ø Na1onal Advisory Centre/ Commissioner for e-Safety
Ø Data Collec1on and Research
Ø Legal Reform
Success will depend on strength of poliFcal will