Cyberbullying: A Psychological and Emotional Distress

Running head: BUSINESS VALUES AND ETHICS
BUSINESS VALUES AND ETHICS
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Question 1:
Cyberbullying is a form of bullying in which physical contact is not needed to bully someone
and make him/her feel inferior. Like traditional bullying cyberbullying also causes significant
amount of psychological and emotional distress. Especially, for kids cyberbullying can
become a nightmare as self-esteem gets lower, some adverse physical symptoms can be seen
to the victim and cyberbullying can also affect the academic performance of the that kid. The
different kinds of feelings that can be experienced by people when getting cyberbullied are
listed below (Whittaker & Kowalski, 2015). However, all the feelings listed are not
necessarily to be experienced by same person and at the same time. Mainly, the teenagers
who experienced different feelings when cyberbullied are
Overwhelming feeling: The stress of being cyberbullied can cause the particular kid to feel
like the situation is out of control and often it feels like that the world knows what is going on
with the matter.
Vulnerable and powerless feeling: Cyberbullied victims often feel that they don’t feel safe as
through bullying the homes can be invaded by computers or by cell phones at time of day.
Hence, they can’t escape from the bullying and feels that bullying is everywhere. Now, in
addition the bullies generally remain anonymous and hence it escalates the fear of the
victims.
Felling anger and revengeful: At sometimes the victims get very angry about the person who
bullied him and thus waiting the right moment to take the revenge is quite natural. This
becomes dangerous as this keeps both of them in the bully-victim cycle and the every repeat
of the cycle the intensity of bullying and revenge is increased than the previous cycle (Cerna,
Machackova & Dedkova, 2016). Hence, it is better to forgive the bully at some time instead
of making it even.

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Feeling ill and suicidal: Most often times when the kids the cyberbullied then they feel
headaches, problems in stomach-aches or other types of physical ailments. The stress that
was generated inside the kid can cause stress related diseases like ulcers in stomach and
adverse skin conditions. Eating habits of the kids also changes like most kids skips their
meals or binge eat while going through stress. The sleeping durations of the stressed kid can
also be change as they may fall sleep in odd times of day or may sleep more than usual time
and wake up by watching some nightmares. Cyberbullying becomes worst when the
victimized kid takes the decision to end his or her unbearable life as they were fade up by
being constantly tormented with peers through the text messages, social media and other
types of outlets.
Question 2:
The main issues with cyberbullying are the suicidal tendency and committed suicides of
young people by being the victim of cyberbullying. In UK on an average 20 percent of people
think about suicide and on out of ten attempts it. Nearly about 4500 kids commit suicide in
each year due to cyberbullying. Cyberbullying spreads through internet faster than even
physical bullying as bullying is enjoyed by not only person/s who did it but also by other
people views who views the posts or comments. Thus in quick time the person who is being
bullied are in front of many people (Tian, Yan & Huebner, 2018). Also, as previously
mentioned the current situation of the victim was not known to others and hence the
emotional breakdown or harassment was not realized by the person who cyberbullies or
persons who gets entertained. The victims also feels hopeless if they can’t share their feelings
with someone as they loses the feeling of friendship with someone.
The responsible persons for cyberbullying are not only persons doing the bullying but also
those who stay quiet and promotes the harassing posts or comments through different social