Effectiveness for Coping Strategies

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INTRODUCTION
Cyberbullying which is a form of bullying that is done using electronic devices. It’s also
known as cyber harassment and it is a form of online bullying. Cyberbullying has become a
public health issue internationally especially among mostly the adolesscents. It is executed in
form of harassment, flaming, outing, exclusion, impersonation and even stalking. It is quite
debilitating and also harmful as it includes posting of rumors, threats, sexual remarks, exposing
victim’s personal information and pejorative labels (hateful speech). In the past, bullying was
defined as a face to face implication among the youths and teenagers in the society as it has
negatively affected development among the younger generations globally. Statistics have it that
over 43% of the teens and youths globally have been bullied for more than one once (Campbell,
2012).
More people report has seen online bullying among friends and friends especially on
social media from the likes of Facebook, twitter and others. A social media culture has developed
right into the learning insitutions and over 80% of the teenagers use phones regularly and thus
the platform for cyberbullying is quite high. Mean students seem to project some of their
personal issues against other students that they dislike for one reason and the other. Being that
sometimes it might even be hard to trace sources of information to the authors or creators, one
wrong message or false statements of another person can go viral and injure the victims. In
recent times, many teenagers have agreed cyberbullying has become a crippling issue in society
being that is much easier to escape from than face to face bullying (Campbell, 2012).
More to it being a major crippling issue, its sadder that most youths ignore it a social
norm that is bound to happen one time or the other. Most of the victims of social bullying seek to
hide it rather than have the issue addressed by friends, or family. Girls are more exposed to
cyberbullying than the boys and statistics have associated many suicide cases to cyberbullying.
Due to the rise in high profile cases, laws have been enacted to deal with cyberbullying in its
specificity. Others have extended to cope with physical harassment that is associated with
cyberbullying. There has been a lot of internet trolling behaviors reported to law enforcement
agencies with bullies taking to the online community to disrupt and elect a reaction among the
victims just for personal amusement. This can be done by one person or many people and it may
occur once or severally (Campbell, 2012).

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Similarity between cyberbullying and traditional bullying
 Victims of cyberbullying are nor always aware of their bully’s idenity.
 Victims may not be aware of the reason behind the bullying.
 The effects of the bullying may extend beyond the victim being that the content of
the harassment may be easily shared to other people and remain accessible even
after the incident has been resolved.
 The art of cyberbullying is harmful to the victim’s safety.
 There has been research into definitions of cyberbullying, guidelines that helps in
recognizing and coping with the online abuse.
 The intent behind cyberbullying and face to face bullying is to harm.
OBJECTIVES
 To find out the prevalence of and extent of cyberbullying among the young adults
 To find out the coping strategies used and their effectiveness
RESEARCH PROBLEM.
There are various responses to cyberbullying but there have been very few proven
mechanisms that validate the effectiveness of the present coping strategies. This is due to the
little availed information on the same as well as shortage of research materials. This study seeks
to expound on the available knowledge on coping strategies to cyberbullying and more so
focusing on the victims. The study will focus on the effectiveness of the coping strategies and
which are preventative strategies and those with an impact nature (Peren, 2012).
The study also focuses on the coping strategies that are favored by most cyberbullying
victims especially the children even for the lesss severe forms of cyberbullying. There has been
lesss studies that have concentrated on the severity of the problem ad thus influencing the
conclusion made on cyberbullying scenarios. Gaining a decor comprehension of how the victims
cope with cyberbullying will help in comparing which strategies are effective whole also taking
into considerations and just how severe the cyber harassment is done (Peren, 2012).
METHODOLOGY
A study involving 11 and 12 years, and the relationship between use of coping strategies
with daily stressors (325 participants) and use of coping strategies to deal with cyberbullying
(88) is considered. The study also will look into impact of coping strategies for depression and
health of the cyberbullying victims (88 participants). It is clear that the victims differed from the

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face to face bullies and also differed from the children that weren’t victims of cyberbullying.
This was evident from the emotions focused to coping with the daily stressors more than the
other children do.
Measures
Cyber aggression: The participants were provided with description of cyberbullying as
misuse of internet or mobile phones to purposefully harm or harass other people with exampless
that include sending of offensive messages or pictures or even impersonation of character. The
participants were asked if they have experienced similar situations. To those who have, more
questions on the severity of the situations were asked as well.
Length of cyber aggression: The participants were asked on the forms of cyber
aggression that they may have experienced whether an embarrassing photo or video sent over the
internet; To those who have, they were questioned further on the length of the bullying.
Experienced harm: based on a 4-point scale, the victims of cyber aggression were asked
to rate how hurt they were by the aggression (not at all, several days, several weeks, several
months, longer), another 6-point scale was used for several minutes hours days, weeks, month,
longer to indicate how long they felt victimized. The length of harm and victimization based on
the response from the victimization assessment being that other ways of assessing the harm or
victimization would be met by variable challenges.
Types of responses and the perceived effectiveness are based on partly use models and
those that are still in discussion. Looking into al the strategies current used in coping with
cyberbullying, the respondents were asked to rate those were applicable to them and those they
don’t find applicable and those that they wouldn’t just use. The inability to do away with
unpleasant calls or deletion of messages was taken as subscaless being that scaless were put up to
show how efficient the strategies were in assisting victims cope with cyberbullying.
There is little that can be defined when it comes to effectiveness of the coping strategies
of cyberbullying especially among the young teens and thus a study that involved 11 to 12 years
old was done to review the coping strategies and how the victims of cyberbullying found the me
effective. Effectiveness was measured into two ways which included the how the coping
strategies helped in buffering negative emotions and to what extent they were able to stop the
cyber aggression. 68% of girls were exposed to online attacks where they were divided into two
groups which included long term and severe victimization and victims of lesss severe