Psychosocial factors of risk and protection associated with juvenile cyberbullying victimization: results from an international multi-city study (International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3, ISRD3)

Rosario Barranco; Uberto Gatti; Alfredo Verde; Gabriele Rocca

doi:10.1080/13218719.2022.2040395

Psychosocial factors of risk and protection associated with juvenile cyberbullying victimization: results from an international multi-city study (International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3, ISRD3)

Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2022 Jun 1;30(3):397-417. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2022.2040395. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Rosario Barranco¹, Uberto Gatti², Alfredo Verde², Gabriele Rocca²

Affiliations

¹ University of Genova, Department of Legal and Forensic Medicine, Via De Toni 12, Genoa, Italy.
² Department of Health Sciences, Section of Criminology, University of Genoa, Italy.

Abstract

The growing use of technologies makes it easy for children and young people to access or produce offensive content, giving rise to a new form of bullying: cyberbullying. Several individual and environmental protection and risk factors are involved with cyberbullying victimization. The present study aims to provide some empirical data that can help in understanding cyberbullying and in the formulation of programmes for its prevention. For this purpose, the data of the ISRD3 (International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3) survey were used. Data show that, for strategies of prevention and intervention to be effective, they should consider multiple systems, such as the family, peers, school and community.

Keywords: ISRD3; International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3; cyberbullying; perpetration; physical and mental consequences; protection and risk factors; strategies of prevention and intervention; victimization.