Parents are aware of ‘Self-cyberbullying’?
Scores of teens are SELF-bullying online, report reveals - and experts warn it could be driving up suicide rates
- A new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health reveals that six percent of teens reported that they had anonymously cyberbullied themselves
- Researchers investigated 5,593 American middle and high school students between the ages of 12 to 17
- The study is the first of its kind and indicates that 1 in 20 teens have participated in digital self-harm
- Boys described their behavior as a joke or way to get attention while girls said they did it because they were depressed
- Two teenage girls used the apps Ask.fm and After School to anonymously post abusive comments about themselves leading up to their suicides
Source | http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Research Available @ http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30313-0/fulltext
PR | Free Press | 1st November 2017
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