Anti Bullying Research

8 results

“Social media use is linked to depression and poor mental health,” says Prof Yvonne Kelly of UCL’s Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
Social media-linked depression more common in teenage girls

A major UK study that has found 14-year-old girls are twice as likely to show signs of social media-linked depression compared to boys would show “ver(...)

Secondary-school girls report higher levels of both being cyberbullied (22 per cent versus 11 per cent of their male peers) and of experiencing cyberbullying happening to people around them
Sexting: do you know what your teenager is doing on their phone?

Almost half of teenagers in their final year at school say they have participated in sexting – an activity that increases progressively through each y(...)

The #ClickWithCompassion film shows actors confronting one another with real comments from the internet.
Schoolchildren urged to watch viral video on cyberbullying

Schoolchildren are being urged to watch a viral video that highlights the impact of cyberbullying on people in the real world. The #ClickWithCompassi(...)

Parents need to tackle cyber bullying, not just companies says research chief

The head of the National Anti-Bullying Research Centre has said a greater emphasis on parental responsibility is necessary to tackle cyber bullying, n(...)

Managing children’s internet access: CyberSafeIreland chief executive Alex Cooney said, “The answer lies in education, not prohibition.” Photograph: iStock
Law punishing parents for children’s internet usage ‘unworkable’

Proposed measures to fine parents and retailers if they allow children unrestricted access to the internet are unworkable, organisations and online s(...)

‘Sexting is often times a response to an inability to articulate one’s aversion to engaging in physical sexual activities.’
Teach teenagers about sexting and not how to preserve their virtue

Netflix and chill, shift, dank, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, bae and fam: buzz words for the modern teenager. The language is changing so rapidly that(...)

Working out how to tackle the bully in your office

Is there someone at work making your life hell? From cutting you out of meetings to being overly critical of your work to shouting at you, the tactics(...)

The “sexting” phenomenon, and general “peer to peer” exchange of material, has been facilitated by advances in technology, a conference was told at the weekend in Dublin. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
Increase in ‘sexually aggressive’ behaviour by youth, forum told

There has been a noticeable increase in sexually aggressive behaviour through young people’s use of phone and online content, a conference hea(...)