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A Pilot Survey Oncyberbullying: The Impact Of Parental Involvement On Adolescent Experiences With This Phenomenon, Nicole M. Stottlemyre

Culminating Projects in Criminal Justice

In a society where 77% of youth aged 12-17 own a cell phone and 95% have access the internet (Lenhart, Ling, Campbell, & Purcell, 2010), American families are quickly discovering the consequences of adolescent abuse of their electronic and virtual environments. A research study completed by Hinduja and Patchin (2010) revealed that "cyberbullying victims were 1.9 times more likely and cyberbullying offenders were 1.5 times more likely' to have attempted suicide than those who were not cyberbullying victims or offenders" (p. 208). These researchers further discovered that these risks of suicide increased when certain external factors existed. Those factors included …