Finding Best Cyberbullying Intervention Program for Students

Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Finding Best Cyberbullying Intervention Program for Students
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1RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Introduction 200 words
Cyberbullying is a phenomenon which is emerging and spreading rapidly like an
epidemic. In March 2018, a survey commissioned by Talking Point found that three in four
teens in Singapore reported to have experienced Cyberbullying (Ruiz, 2019). This new form
of bullying or harassment in not only damaging the social cultural and ethical values of the
new generation, it also restrict the career growth of the students by harming their mental
health. In has been proven that the social pillars such as healthcare service, education system
and low enforcement have the capabilities to rescue the new generation from this social
epidemic.
The aim of this research is to explore the effective intervention or prevention d
programs of Cyberbullying in order to find the most effective technique or strategy.
Therefore the purpose of this study is strengthening the secondary school students by
equipping them with scientifically sound method to combat cyber bulling. Therefore, the
research questions are
 What are the strategic intervention programs to prevent the impact and occurrence of
Cyberbullying within secondary school students?
 Which is the most effective intervention program to prevent the impact and occurrence of
Cyberbullying within secondary school students?
 What will be the best method or approach to implement such prevention technique within
current provisions?
Literature review and Hypothesis development
Cyberbullying:

2RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Cyberbullying is an act of posting, sending and spreading false, cruel and harmful
images, videos and audios through internet, especially through social media for bullying a
person. It is a technologically advance method of bullying or harassing someone.
Cyberbullying is experienced in many ways, such as Harassment or repeated insults through
various forms; Defamation of a person’s character through derogatory postings, rumours, or
images; Flaming or fighting messages using anger and vulgar language; Outing or deceiving
someone into sharing secrets or private information; Polling such as posting an image on a
voting website to make fun of a person’s looks; Impersonation or identity theft to embarrass
or destroy a person’s identity; Cyber Stalking including sending intimidating or threatening
messages; Sexting including sexual solicitation and/or exploitation; Unsafe digital
communities with shared interests, such as social communities that validate eating disorders,
violence, or drug use (Rice et al., 2015). A survey of 2014 in Singapore found that 1 in 9
teenagers are victims of Cyberbullying. This situation has decorated severely by 2018, where
a survey in 2018 has found that 3 in 4 teens in Singapore are victims of Cyberbullying
(Baldry et al., 2018).
Prevention strategies
Many strategies are available to prevent the effect or occurrence of Cyberbullying
with two different implementation patterns namely addressing the Cyberbullying and
Mitigating the impact of Cyberbullying. Both technical and non-technical strategies are used
to address and mitigate the Cyberbullying. However, currently almost 75% of social activities
are utilising the technical strategies (Bauman, Toomey & Walker, 2013). Most utilised
technical strategy is protecting the children and adulations via web security or protection
system. It includes contacting the convicted persons online, changing login id or password,
deleting anonymous messages and others. There is another technical solution or scheme,
which very popular in UK named Beat bullying Cyber monitor. In this system students will